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    [Vasn erkutsʻ ... ] [Other physical details, binding] [Physical description] [Place of writing] [Statement of responsibility] Caption title. Gift of "Miss Alice Adanalian, Dec. 28, 1978." Illlustrations: initials. Manuscript Notagir. Armenian.
    • Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Yovhannēs
    • Date: 17??
    • Resource: - 402 pages

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    Kitāb-i akhlāq-i muḥsinī
    كتاب اخلاق محسني
    Treatis on Islamic ethics and religious life.
    • Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 17??

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    Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī
    اخلاق ناصرى
    Ethical work by Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.
    • Contributor: Munro, Thomas - Ṭūsī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 17??

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    Bhāgavatapurāṇa Palm-leaf manuscript from Orissa; illustrations on every page; wooden covers highlighted in red with single threaded hole in middle; encased in box (10 x 49 x 29 cm). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. In Sanskrit (in Oriya script). digital files not viewed; td12 2013-7-16
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 17??
    • Resource: - 54 pages

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    [Baidha saphu] Collections of stotra used in getting rid of planetory influences.
    • Contributor: South Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1722
    • Resource: - 39 pages

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    [Qurʼān]
    [قران]
    Manuscript. Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in the Caucasus? Paper; thin, cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; fol. 1b and 2a elaborately decorated in gold, light blue, and red; text enclosed in an outer ruled border of a single blue line and an inner border of a blue, a very thin...
    • Date: 1700-01-01

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    [Qurʼān] Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Aḥmad al-Nayrīzī. Written in Iran. Paper; thin, cream color polished paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, black, blue and red; fol. 1b and 2a have gold floral design in borders; in remainder of the work, the text is enclosed in an elaborate ruled border of blue, gold, red and blue; the...
    • Contributor: Nayrīzī, Aḥmad
    • Date: 1708

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    [Qurʼān] Manuscript. Arabic. Title suppllied by cataloger. Written by Muṣṭafá al-Khaṭīb in the Sulṭanīyah mosque. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate decoration on fol. 1b and 2a in gold, dark blue, red, and light blue; remainder of text enclosed in wide ruled border of gold and black; individual sūrah's have titles in white...
    • Date: 1739

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    Sūrat al-Qāf
    سورة القاف | SURAT / AL / AHQĀF
    Sūrat al-Ahqāf with interlinear Persian translation.
    • Date: 17??

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    Zubdat al-afkār min muṣannafāt Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Ḥakīm al-Siyālkūtī ʻalá Ḥāshiyat al-ʻallāmah Mawlá al-Khayālī
    زبدة الافكار من مصنفات مولانا عبد الحكيم السيالكوتي على حاشية العلامة مولى الخيالي | Also known as: Siyalkūtī ʻalá al-Khayālī Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Commentary on Khayālī's commentary on the Aqāʼid of al-Nasafī.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Siyālkūtī, ʻabd Al-Ḥakīm Ibn Shams Al-Dīn - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1728
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    Kitab Qawāʻid al-ʻaqāʼid muḥaqqiq-i Ṭūsī Naṣīr al-Millah wa-al-Dīn quddisa sirrahu
    كتاب قواعد العقائد محقق طوسي نصير الملة والدين قدس سره
    Brief treaties on Islamic doctrine.
    • Contributor: Ṭūsī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 17??
    • Resource: - 129 pages

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    Taʻlīq ʻalá sharḥ al-Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr al-Hudʹhudī ʻalá al-Sanūsīyah
    تعليق على شرح الشيخ محمد بن منصور الهدʹهدي على السنوسية / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Glosses by the otherwise unidentified author al-Sūranqāshī on al-Hudʹhudī's commentary on al-Sanūsīyah.
    • Contributor: Sūranqāshī, ʻalī Al-Khaṭīb Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Qāsim Ibn ʻumar - Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1750
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    Hādhā kitāb sharḥ Badʻ al-amālī l
    هذه كتاب شرح بدء الامالي / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Commentary on al-Ūshī's poem Badʼ al-amālī on Islamic doctrines.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Jamāʻah, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Bakr - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1765
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    ʻAhdʹnāmah
    عهدنامه | Ahd-namah / India 18th c. | Book of prayers
    [Summary]
    • Date: 17??

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    Kitāb Dalāʼil al-khayrāt
    كتاب دلائل الخيرات | Title on frontispiece: Dilayil-khayrat = A guide for the good | Guide for the good
    A collection of prayers for the Prophet, with a description of his tomb and his names. This Muslim prayer book is a 1785 copy of an original 15th-century manuscript. The work includes a panorama of Mecca and Medina, the holy cities of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Mecca, where the Prophet Muhammad was born and lived for the first 50 years of his life, is...
    • Contributor: Batchelder, John Davis - John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) - Jazūlī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān - Mawlawī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm
    • Date: 1772
    • Resource: - 300 pages

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    Wardah al-juyūb fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Ḥabīb
    وردة الجيوب في الصلاة على الحبيب | Wardat al-juyūb fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Nabī al-maḥbūb
    Islamic prayer book composed of selections from Dalāʾil al-khayrāt and Riyāḍ al-anwār. This North African manuscript dating from the early to mid-18th century is a prayer book, Wardah al-juyūb fī al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-Ḥabīb (Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad). Prayers for the Prophet Muhammad have a special place in Muslim devotional life. They were first enshrined in the Qurʼan: verse 56 of chapter...
    • Contributor: Jazūlī, ʻumar Ibn ʻabd Al-ʻazīz - Jazūlī, Muḥammad Ibn Sulaymān - Mukhtār Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1727
    • Resource: - 190 pages

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    [Collection of Arabic religious and ascetic sayings and adages with Persian explanations.] Collection of Arabic religious and Sufi adages with Persian explanations following each adage.
    • Date: 17??

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    Faqrʹnāmah
    فقرنامه /
    On Sufism, probably written in Afghanistan between 1772-1793 during the reign of Tīmūr Shāh Durrānī, 1742 or 1743-1793.
    • Contributor: K̲h̲arqānī, K̲h̲vājah Abulḥasan
    • Date: 1772

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    Majālis al-muʼminīn
    مجالس المؤمنين
    Manuscript. Persian Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Written in Iran? Paper; unpolished cream color paper with not visible watermarks; text of fol. 1b-3a enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold, rest of manuscript is without borders; black ink with rubrication and red overlining; numerous notes, corrections, etc. written on squares of very thin blue paper and pasted over parts of the...
    • Contributor: Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh Ibn ʻabd Allāh
    • Date: 1767

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    Munājāt
    مناجات
    Caliph 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61) is one of the most revered religious and holy figures of Islam. In Iran, he is referred to by the honorary name Amir al-Muʼminin, which translates from Arabic as “Commander of the Faithful” and is used to refer to him in Persian. Written works by 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib and sayings attributed to him are sacred to...
    • Contributor: Vahīd Ḥusaynī - Alī Ibn Abī Ṭālib - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
    • Date: 17??

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    Incomplete treatise on Shīʻah apologetics and the imams
    Shiʻite apologetic and the imams
    Manuscript. Persian with passages in Arabic. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in either Iran or India. Paper; cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and watermark of a cross within a circle; black ink with minimal rubrication and some red overlining; catchwords. Naskh; 14 lines in written area 14 x 9.5 cm. Fol. 1a-69b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M140....
    • Date: 1723

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    Maʻārij al-nubūwah
    معارج النبوة
    Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.
    • Contributor: Muʻīn Al-Dīn Farāhī
    • Date: 1713

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    B-yad ʼenašā ʼaḥad kul katbínan ʼEvangelyon qadíšā d-kitbé d-Marqus Syriac Mss Ewangeliyon (The Assyrian Gospel).

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    Patmutʻiwn varutsʻ Eranelwoyn Yōhannu Awetaranchʻin
    Varkʻ Sěrboyn Yōhannu Awetaranchʻin
    Artist and scribe Yōhannes is described as Pekghozetsʻi; that is from Pekghoz [Beykoz], an Anatolian suburb of Istanbul, Turkey. Binding: fine goat skin; paste board; gilt and paint; medallion gold tooled and gold painted with inlay. Endpapers followed by 3 leaves and one tip in; 8 quires of 10 leaves tip in; 5 leaves. Gold painted edges with a zigzag design that partially mimics...
    • Contributor: Pōghos - Mamoulian, Rouben - Mamoulian, Azadia - Yōhannēs, Pekghozetsʻi
    • Date: 1765
    • Resource: - 194 pages

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    [Missal for the Divine Liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic Church] "Dzeramb Meghapart Marzvantsʻu Tēr Eghiay Eritsʻu skhal banitsʻ kam amotʻu zdzer otatsʻn hoghew pʻoshi chʻem arzhani zanuns yisheal"--Colophon. Amasya İli (Turkey). Bolorgir, black and read ink; Illustrations: pen-drawn decorations; chapters have decorated first initials. Columns: text in two columns has 22 lines: 6.5x29.5 cm.; borders are ruled in several line and in several colors. Leaf one has an illustration of the Crucifixion. Leaf two...
    • Contributor: Armenian Church - Eghia
    • Date: 1722
    • Resource: - 48 pages