MS. S. Digby Or. 25 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

Oriental Manuscripts Simon Digby Oriental Collection

Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Majmaʻ al-nafāʼis by Ārzū, Sirāj al-Dīn ʻAlī Khān, approximately 1689-1756

Incipit: حمد صانعى كه زبان قلم و قلم زبان بتحرير

Language(s): Persian

Storey I, No. 1149, p. 839.

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 466

Dimensions (leaf): 30.2 × 22 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Nastaʻlīq (ranging from fine to coarse); rubrics; yellow jadval Mīr Luṭf ʻAlī al-Ḥusaynī, of the Pasgana of Nasībshāhī (?)

half leather (name of S. Khudā Bakhsh)

Origin: 8th Muḥarram 1193 AH; 26th January 1779 CE

Donated to the Bodleian Libraries by the Trustees of the Simon Digby Memorial Charity, April 2015

Manuscript description based on handlist of Simon Digby with additional enhancements by the Fihrist team.

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