MS. S. Digby Or. 70 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Oriental Manuscripts Simon Digby Oriental Collection

Incipit: ای روشن از محبت تو برق آه ما هر برق آه جانب تو شمع راه ما

Ghazals are preceded by a prose preface.

Language(s): Persian

Form: codex

Extent: ff. 89

Dimensions (leaf): 20.6 × 13.3 cm.

Dimensions (written):

Small Taʻlīq, red and blue jadvals, some rubrics. Scribe's name defaced.

Half leather (Hyderabad, early 20th century. Bookbinder Muḥammad Tāj al-Dīn, Chatta Bāzār, Ḥaydarābād).

Origin: Hyderabad.; 17th-18th century. CE

A. H. Harley, Calcutta, 1930.

The collections of Mr. Simon Digby.

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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