Persian MS 896 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Decoration

Thirteen very finely executed illustrations, with figures outlined in gold, all in good condition, with minor retouching to the surrounding ruling in some areas when repaired.

Illustrations:

• 6b
  Rānjhan meets a traveller.
  115 × 93 mm.
• 9a
  Rānjhan rests in Hīr's boat attended by Malāḥ and his wife.
  191 × 148 mm.
• 12a
  Rānjhan introduced to Hīr.
  189 × 91 mm.
• 13b
  Rānjhan tends goats.
  111 × 93 mm.
• 15a
  At right, Hīr's mother and father sit above her while they detain her, while at left, she flees during a house fire.
  116 × 153 mm.
• 18a
  At top, Hīr's stands with two women while below her mother, father, and brother plead with Rānjhan.
  116 × 153 mm.
  Folio remargined.
• 25a
  At top, Hīr and her mother while her father and brothers plead their case with a marriage judge to arrange marriage to another man.
  181 × 92 mm.
  Extremely thin dyed slunk vellum interleaving loose in the gutter.
• 26b
  Rānjhan leads cows while attendants carry Hīr in a sedan chair while below, her husband and attendants travel.
  111 × 93 mm.
  Folio remargined.
• 30a
  At top, Hīr another woman sit by a window while Rānjhan speaks to a female attendant below.
  103 × 92 mm.
• 33a
  Hīr and Rānjhan depart during a raging fire.
  144 × 92 mm.
  Two pieces of extremely thin slunk vellum interleaving, one undyed attached to the gutter, with another dyed red left loose.
• 35a
  At top, Hīr's husband, father in-law, and brother in-law plead their case to a judge, while Hīr and Rānjhan wait with the judge's attendant.
  175 × 92 mm.
• 37b
  An elderly Rānjhan and Hīr sit below a tree while a man offers them water.
  132 × 94 mm.
• 39a
  The graves of Rānjhan at top and Hīr below, attended by ascetics.
  117 × 92 mm.

Illumination: Folio 1b bears trelliswork headpiece of foliate scrollwork and central cartouche inscribed with a basmala.
85 × 96 mm.

Ruling: Text margins ruled in gold outlined with thin single interior and double interior black lines, with interior columns and horizontal section breaks in comparatively thin gold outlined with single thin black lines.
193 × 96 mm.