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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..

Selections of the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi..