MS. S. Digby Or. 189 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Simon Digby Oriental Collection
Contents
Kāshifī's abridgement of Rūmī's Mathnawī.
Title: Lubb al-lubāb
Title: لب لباب معنوی انتخاب مثنوی
Title: لبّ اللباب
Incipit: ||و قبل از شروع در ايراد عيون ثلاثه نكت جند در اوايل رسايل بحسب عرف و عادت از مناجات و نعت و صفت كتاب و تعريف باعث . . . زبان زده اقلام و اشناشده افهام كشته انست مينمايد
Explicit: مهربانی میکند با اهل درد // همدلی کن تا شوی ازاد و فرد||
Extracts from the Mathnawī of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.
Language(s): Persian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 208 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 23.2 × 12.9 cm.
Dimensions (written): 16.5 × 6.6 cm.
Layout
8
Hand(s)
Naskh
Binding
Eastern binding in leather over boards with tooled borders and mandorla stamp in centre with two further smaller stamps at top and bottom.
History
Origin: Undated (10th century?) AH; Undated (16th century?) CE
Provenance and Acquisition
The collections of Mr. Simon Digby.
Donated to the Bodleian Libraries by the Trustees of the Simon Digby Memorial Charity, April 2015.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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