[RARE BOMBAY EDITION OF YOUSSEF AND ZULEIKHA / LITHOGRAPHY] يوسف وزليخا / Yusef wa Zulaikha [i.e., Youssef and Zuleikha]

JAMI, MOLLA MAWLÂNÂ NUR AL-DÎN ‘ABD AL-RAHMÂN (1414-1492). Matbaa-yi Haydârî wa Safârî on behalf of Sheikh Nureddin b. Jiwahan, Bombay, 30 Cemaziyelevvel 1301 = [March 1884]. Contemporary quarter black morocco. Five raised bands to the spine, title and decorations gilded to the compartments. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In Persian. 230 p. Repaired spine skilfully, a small period label written on “684” in Arabic numbers on the spine. Minor stains on some pages and marginalia and underlined couplets in red ink at the very beginning of text. Overall, a very good copy. Lithographed edition. Early Bombay edition in Persian, of the story of Yousuf and Zuleikha, which forms the medieval Islamic version of the narrative of the prophet Yousuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura twelve of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yousuf and Zuleikha seems to have developed in Persia around the tenth century CE. The fine nasta’liq text is given in quatrains in two columns whi