Persian MS 922 (The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, The University of Manchester)

Binding

Probably rebound in Britain, in the early 19th century.

Resewn on five recessed cords laced into pasteboards, with added 'shell' patterned marbled endpaper stiff-leaved with medium-weight, straight-grained ivory-coloured English handmade paper, with ~9 laid lines per cm and ~23 mm between chain lines, watermarked with the East India Company insignia ( 106 × 57 mm. ) and countermarked ‘J. Whatman 1811’ ( 39 × 163 mm. ), manufactured by the Whatman Paper Mill in Maidstone, Kent, then owned and operated by William Balston (1759–1849). and decorative front-bead endbands sewn over a single round core in white and blue silk threads at head and tail, then boards covered in full red straight-grained Morocco goatskin leather.

Eight spine panels paletted with double fillets and dotted garlands on either side, and central coronets over two crossed spears and three quatrefoil rosettes in the centres, all in gold. Board margins bear foliate and floraiate scrollwork rolls with chain borders betwee, alternating thick solid and and thin dotted diagonal lines on the board edges, and comparatively thick rope tool on the interior dentelles.

397 × 246 × 56 mm.

Binding in fairly good condition, with some abrasion to the exterior, and sewing broken between 98b and 99a.