Person in simple attire with writing materials

Within a frame of a narrow ornamental border in dark blue with golden floral and foliate scrolls sits a simply dressed person on a narrow carpet; before him on the floor lie writing implements and a leaf from a manuscript; in the background, golden and some dark blue foliate scrolls and a golden tree trunk with a (heavily damaged) sun at the top; the outer edge of the sheet is golden-dotted and contains cut-out and pasted-in inserts in sky-blue and sepia with golden ornaments. The composition is mounted on the left side of the sheet within the border line and appears to be part of a pendant where the border decoration should continue.