MS. S. Digby Or. 96 (Bodleian Library, Oxford University)

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Oriental Manuscripts Simon Digby Oriental Collection

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2 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry and Persian language

1. 1b-68b
Author: Ẓahīr Fāryābī, Abū al-Faz̤l Ṭāhir ibn Muḥammad, -1201 or 1202
Title: Qadrī az Dīvān-i Ẓahīr Fāryābī
Title: قدرى از ديوان ظهير فاريابى
Language(s): Persian
2. 69b-161a
Author: Balkhī, Muḥammad ibn Qivām, active 14th century Muḥammad ibn Qiwām ibn Rustam ibn Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd Badr khizanah al-Balkhī محمد بن قوام بن رستم بن أحمد بن محمود بدر خزانه البلخى
Title: Baḥr al-faḍāʼil fī manāfiʻ al-Afāḍil
Title: بحر الفضائل في منافع الأفاضل

Author's name appears on fol.70a, l.14

Title appears on fol.71a, l.14.

Composed 795/1392-3.

Fol.161b contains a note of a method for determining 'Nayrūz'.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: ff. 161+i
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Layout

Hand(s)

Nastaʻlīq in two hands.

History

Origin: 29th Dhū al-Ḥijjah 1286 (2nd item only). AH; 1st April 1870 (2nd item only). 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.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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