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Title Muntakhab-i Mas̲navī-i sharīf. Other Title منتخب مثنوي شريف. Summary Selections of the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Contributor Names Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. ʻArīf Jābirī, Shāh ʻĀlim Gharīb, scribe. Created / Published 1261 [1845] Subject Headings - Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.) - Pakistan - India Notes - 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 ...