MS. S. Digby Or. 189 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Kāshifī's abridgement of Rūmī's Mathnawī.

Author: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505 كاشفى، حسين واعظ الكاشفي، حسين بن علي، ت. 910 هـ
Title: Lubb-i lubāb-i maʻnavī intikhāb-i mas̲navī
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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