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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb qaṭr al-sayl fī amr al-khayl
كتاب قطر السيل في أمر الخيل / Manuscript is an abridgement of Faḍl al-Khayl by ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Khalaf a-Dimyāṭī. The legal scholar 'Umar ibn Raslān al-Bulqīnī was from a renowned family of Egyptian scholars of Palestinian origin. In his Muqaddima (Introduction), the great Arab historian and historiographer Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406) praised al-Bulqīnī as the most celebrated jurist of his era, even though Al-Bulqīnī did not gain the prestigious title of...- Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Dimyāṭī, ʻabd Al-Muʾmin Ibn Khalaf - Bulqīnī, ʻumar Ibn Raslān - Khalīl, Muḥammad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
- Date: 1653
- Resource: - 66 pages
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialWilliam Tappan autograph collection, 1640-1939 Autograph collector. Correspondence, miscellaneous documents, prints, poetry, rare printed matter, photographs, and some letters to Tappan, chiefly autographic in nature.
- Contributor: Tappan, William
- Date: 1640
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialPeter Force papers and collection, 1492-1977 Antiquarian, historian, and mayor of Washington, D.C. Chiefly Force's personal papers and papers he collected for his nine-volume American Archives. Force's personal papers document his career as a Washington printer, newspaper editor, compiler, and collector. The collection records political, military, scientific, and social aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth century America.
- Contributor: Force, Peter
- Date: 1492
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialArmand Hammer papers, circa 1508-1989 Business executive, philanthropist, and art collector. Chiefly correspondence documenting Hammer's career as a citizen diplomat (particularly to the Soviet Union), humanitarian, and art collector gathered for an exhibition honoring him at the Library of Congress in 1989, including also a facsimile edition of the Codex Hammer (a notebook of Leonardo da Vinci) and a photograph album.
- Contributor: Hammer, Armand
- Date: 1508
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialUnited States. Work Projects Administration records, 1524-1975 Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, essays, scripts, plays, life histories, folklore material, field reports, notes, transcripts of documents, inventories, lists, statements, instructions, surveys and appraisals, graphs, drawings, maps, indexes, and administrative records of the Federal Writer's Project and the Historical Records Survey of the U.S. Work Projects Administration. Also includes a research library of reports and publications documenting social welfare programs of the Depression era.
- Contributor: United States. Work Projects Administration
- Date: 1524