<p style='text-align: justify;'>This copy of the <i>Mas̲navī-i Ma‘navī</i> (Spiritual Couplets) by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207–1273) opens with a brief Arabic preface and contains six lavishly illuminated carpet page openings that indicate the start of each of book within the volume. A scribe named Bāyazīd completed this manuscript between 1043 and 1044 AH (1633–35 CE) in "<i>Sar-i Hind</i>" (Frontier of India), possibly the town of Sirhind-Fategarh, Punjab.</p>