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 ...