Camel Rider].
Ms. of The Camel Rider, translated from the Arabic by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; written and illuminated in England, 1905.
Decoration: 1 miniature depicting a camel rider hastening through the desert on a starry night; 1 illuminated title page with bas-de-page composition depicting birds and animals in a landscape, and surrounding borders incorporating trees and flowers with birds; 2 fully-bordered text pages with bas-de-page vignettes portraying watching animals, the borders composed of trees and flowers, inhabited with birds; 1 large illuminated initial.
Scribe and illuminator: Ethel M. Offer (inscribed on upper front endleaf: Written and decorated by Ethel M. Offer, 1905). Perhaps commissioned by Sydney Cockerell, since it was in his possession the year the manuscript was completed (1905).
Binding: limp vellum with green silk ribbon ties; in cloth box case lined with tan suede, leather spine, labeled: The Camel Rider. MS. Blunt 1905, signed JPW 1975.