MS. S. Digby Or. 59 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)
Oriental Manuscripts Simon Digby Oriental Collection
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Nuzhah-ʼi Ithnā ʻAsharīyah by Ḥakīm Mīrzā Muḥammad Kāmil ibn ʻInāyat Aḥmad Khān Dihlavī, fl. 1204/1789-90
Title: Nuzhah-ʼi Ithnā ʻAsharīyah
Title: نزهۀ اثنا عشریه
Volume I
A reply to Shāh ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Walī Allāh Dihlavī's Tuḥfah-ʼi Ithnā ʻAsharīyah.
Incipit: بهترین کلامی که تجلیۀ مرآة قلوب اصحاب ايمان
Language(s): Persian
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: ff. 493
Dimensions (leaf): 300 × 180 cm.
Dimensions (written):
Layout
Hand(s)
Nastaʻlīq and Naskh
Binding
Oriental black leather.
History
Origin: not dated, probably late 18th century CE/12th century AH.
Provenance and Acquisition
Seal of Muḥammad ʻAlī Khān (1203/1788-9)
Kitābkhānah . . . Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn al-Nūrī (1324/1906-7).
A London Bookseller.
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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