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Muntakhab-i Mas̲navī-i sharīf - Public domain document scan

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Muntakhab-i Mas̲navī-i sharīf - Public domain document scan

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Selections of the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi.
Manuscript.
Persian.
Title from colophon.
Miyān Shāh ʻĀlim Gharīb ʻArīf Jābirī, sākin-i mawz̤aʻ-i Jalhārī Bahāʼikhān.
Jalhārī Bahāʼikhān, India (now Pakistan).
Paper: thick greyish Eastern paper and Eastern laid paper; scraps of paper, also containing writing unrelated to the text, glued on to either the top or bottom of pages to make them a uniform size for binding; some decoration at the end of sections; all pages written in double columns, some of which have single red borders; catch-words on rectos of some pages.
Manuscript missing unknown number of leaves at beginning, between leaves 4 and 5, and between leves 12 and 13.
First 12 leaves have numbered sections beginning with section 3. "Ḥikāyat-i Pādishāh-yi Jahūdān va ḥukmʹkardan-i ū" and ending with section 32; sections 5-21 missing.
Nastaʻlīq; 17-18 lines in written area approximately 15.5 -8.5 cm.
Decorative borders at end of some sections.
Folios 1a-139b.
Library of Congress. ... manuscript, 70.
Front cover, spine, and unknown number of pages missing; back cover cardboard with remnants of original leather covering; almost completely disbound.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Colophon: تمت تمام شد منتخب مثنوي شريف بيد فقير حقير تقصير ميان شاه عالم عريف جابري ساكن موضع جلهاري بهائيخان ١٣٦١ ...

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01/01/1845
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