MS. S. Digby Or. 91 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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A collection of risālahs in poetry and prose, composed 1869 AD.

1. ff. 1-3
Author: Unknown
Title: Risālah-ʼi Jihādīyah
Title: رسالۀ جهادیه

An Urdu mathnavī.

Language(s): Urdu
2. ff. 4-7a
Author: Unknown
Title: Risālah-ʼi Jihādīyah
Title: رسالۀ جهادیه

Another version (in a different hand) of the previous mathnavī.

Language(s): Urdu
3. ff. 7b-10a
Author: Unknown
Title: Risālah-ʼi sad u sih masʻalah
Title: رسالۀ سد و سه مسأله
Language(s): Persian
4. ff. 10b-12b
Author: Niʻmat Allāh Valī, 1330?-1431
Title: Some Persian Quatrains
Language(s): Persian
5. ff. 13a-27a
Author: Mawlānā Ismāʻīl مولانا اسماعيل
Translator: Maqṣūd ʻAlī مقصود على
Title: Risālah-ʼi Radd-i bidʻat
Title: رسالۀ ردّ بدعت

An Urdu translation of the Persian work entitled Īḍāḥ al-ḥaqq

Language(s): Urdu

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 27+xi
Dimensions (leaf):
Dimensions (written):

Layout

Hand(s)

Several hands.

History

Origin: Bāqirganj, Patna. (item 5 only?); 30th May 1869. (item 5 only?) CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Rubber stamp of J. O' Kinealy.

A London bookseller, June 1968.

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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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