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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBlair Family Papers: Gist Blair Papers, 1830-1968; Miscellany, 1844-1928; Passports, photographs, and memorabilia, 1844-1923
- Contributor: Blair Family Papers
- Date: 1844
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFrederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches and Articles by Others.; Smith, Gerrit
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1846-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBlair Family Papers: Additions, 1811-1936; Addition I, 1822-1936; Blair, Gist; History of Blair House, 1651 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C., 1911, undated
- Contributor: Blair Family Papers
- Date: 1911
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBlair Family Papers: Montgomery Blair Papers, 1842-1887; General Correspondence, 1847-1883; 1864, July 13-Aug.
- Contributor: Blair Family Papers
- Date: 1864-07-13
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMargaret Bayard Smith Papers: Family Correspondence, 1789-1842; Boyd, Maria Bayard; Undated
- Contributor: Smith, Margaret Bayard
- Date: 1789
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFrederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence, 1841-1912; 1848
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1848-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialYemenite diwan of ritual poems Yemenite semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid [דיואן תימני] Yemenite diwan or collection of ritual poems. This unbound diwan consists of fragments from at least three different manuscripts. The first part includes piyyutim for Rosh Hashanah (ff. 1-7), the second part, which is lacking many leaves, includes poems in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic for different occasions, among them for weddings, many of them by...
- Date: 18??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQurʼān bā tarjumah-i Fārsī Manuscript. Arabic and Persian; colophon in Turkish (Arabic script). Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color paper with no visible watermarks; elaborate unwans on fol. 1b and 2a with text enclosed in a wide ruled border of gold red and green; remainder of text enclosed in ruled border in gold black and red; interlinear Persian translation in red...
- Date: 1877
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFrederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches and Articles by Others.; Morrill, Justin S.
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1846-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMargaret Bayard Smith Papers: Commonplace Books, 1799-1843; [1826]; [Vol. 2]
- Contributor: Smith, Margaret Bayard
- Date: 1799
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJames Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers: Series I: James Buchanan Papers, 1825-1868; 1848, May 18-1849, Feb. 12
- Contributor: Buchanan, James
- Date: 1848-05-18
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAkedat Yitshak, prayers supplications, and piyyutim Executed in: [Iraq]. Oriental semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Akedat Yitshak, prayers, supplications and piyyutim in Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic recited according to the custom in Baghdad on the eve of the second day of Rosh ha-Shanah. A number of similar, though not identical liturgies are found in the Sassoon collection and described in its catalogue Ohel David. Deinard 1914.
- Date: 18??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQur'anic Verses Qur'anic verses 61-73 of the 10th chapter of the Qur'an entitled Surat Yunus (Jonah), written in Kufi script related to the D.IV style, on parchment during the 9th cent. Dimensions of Written Surface: 22 (w) x 15.2 (h) cm The fragment seems to have been kept folded in two, as evidenced by the crease in the folio's center. Moreover, an inscription in the top...
- Date: 08??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPanel of Illumination, Qur'anic verses Panel of Illumination, Qur'anic verses written of parchment during the 9th century in the Kufi script. But We saved him (Lot) and his family, / Except his wife: her We destined to be among those who lagged behind. (27:57) Dimensions of Panel: 14.5 (w) x 7.3 (h) cm. Dimensions of Written Surface: 14.5 (w) x 8.6 (h) cm On that fragment the text continues...
- Date: 08??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFrederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches and Articles by Others.; Miscellaneous pamphlets, proceedings, periodicals, reports, and other printed matter; Protestantism, True and False
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1846-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBlair Family Papers: Additions, 1811-1936; Addition II, 1811-1876; Blair, Francis Preston; Correspondence; Clay, Henry, 1822-1828; Originals; 1 of 2
- Contributor: Blair Family Papers
- Date: 1811
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJoseph Holt Papers: General Correspondence and Related Material, 1817-1894; 1873, Dec. 24 -1874, Sept. 30
- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1817-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMary Church Terrell Papers: Correspondence, 1886-1954; 1950, May
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1950-05-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMary Church Terrell Papers: Correspondence, 1886-1954; Undated and unidentified
- Contributor: Terrell, Mary Church
- Date: 1886-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFrederick Douglass Papers: Speech, Article, and Book File, 1846-1894; Speeches and Articles by Douglass, 1846-1894; 1848; Jan.; "Abolitionists of Western New York, Awake!" North Star
- Contributor: Douglass, Frederick
- Date: 1846-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Gulistān]
[گلستان] Manuscript. Persian. Title determined by comparison with editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Written by ʻAbd al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd Lārī. Probably written in Iran. Date from colophon written in pencil in a later hand. Paper: cream colored lighly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; unwan in gold, blue, red, white and green; text enclosed blue and gold ruled border; black ink with rubrication;...- Contributor: Saʻdī - Lārī, ʻabd Al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd
- Date: 1602
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPrayer (du'a) for a king A prayer in Arabic for a King (and his many honorific epithets), written in "hanging" Ta'liq script called Tarassul in Safavid Iran by the calligrapher Kamal al-Din Husayn (d. 974/1566-7). Both panels also are executed in a version of the "hanging" ta'liq script called tarassul, in which letters such as the alif (a) and the lam (l) are connected by large looping ligatures. The...
- Contributor: Kamal Al-Din (Ikhtiyar Al-Munshi)
- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialJoseph Holt Papers: Oversize, 1830-1850; Miscellany; Printed matter; General; 1830-1850s (Container 117, folder 4); Hawes, Albert G., "To the Freemen of the 11th Congressional District," July 25, 1831
- Contributor: Joseph Holt Papers
- Date: 1831-07-25
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialStephen A. Benson letter, Monrovia, Liberia, to Theodore Dwight, New York, American Ethnological Society
First line of letter: On my return home early in May, from an official tour down the Coast, I received your favour of the 24th Jany Autograph letter, signed, from Stephen A. Benson to Theodore Dwight about the benefits of circulating publications in Arabic about "Civilized Countries" in Africa with assurances from Benson that he will procure desired Arabic manuscripts for Theodore Dwight.- Contributor: Benson, Stephen Allen - Dwight, Theodore - American Ethnological Society - Rothman, Adam - Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1860
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialCollection of Kabbalah texts Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Owners: אני מנחם כהן יצ"ו Menahem Kohen (on the vellum cover); Graziado Salamon Foa (?). On the inside back cover some accounts, one of them mentioning ברוך לבית ברוך מניצא Barukh Barukh of Nizza Monferrato. Deinard, 1914. MMW. Work 1: Ff. 1r-9v: מעיל צדקה Me'il Zedakah by Aaron Berekhiah Modena. Beginning missing until the middle of...
- Date: 16??
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