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    Mas̲navī maʻnavī
    مثنوي معنوي     Masnavi-e Manawi (Spiritual rhyming couplets) is the famous poetic collection of the medieval ecstatic mystic scholar and Sufi, Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (1207-73), known in Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran as Mowlana or Mawlānā Jalaluddin Balkhi and in the West as Rumi. This Persian manuscript in nastaliq script is a complete 15th century copy of Masnavi, with all six volumes. Narratives, homilies, and commentaries…
    • Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī
    • Date: 1441

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    Kitāb-i Rūmī al-Mawlawī
    كتاب رومي المولوي     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Copied by ʻAlī ibn Ḥaydar al-Qāsimī. Probably written in Turkey. Paper; thin cream color lightly polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and first 3 leaves with decordations in blue and gold; text in 3 columns with text of Masnavi in 2 columns and a commentary written diagonally in the third; text enclosed in narrow ruled…
    • Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī - ʻalī Ibn Ḥaydar Al-Qāsimī
    • Date: 1498

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    Dīvān
    ديوان     Poems of Ḥāfiẓ.
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ - Awḥadī, Munʻim Al-Dīn - Fiẓ
    • Date: 1517

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    [Unnamed Sufi treatise] This manuscript in Persian is an untitled Sufi text on meditation containing both poetry and prose. It was completed in early 1520, probably in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) or Mashhad (present-day Iran). The colophon, which is in Arabic, gives the name of the scribe, Mīr 'Alī Ḥusaynī Haravī (circa 1476-1543). The manuscript is on a firm cream-colored paper inlaid into light cream (folios 1-8) or…
    • Contributor: Mīr ʻalī Ḥusaynī Haravī
    • Date: 1520

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    [Unidentified treatise on prosody by Maḥmūd ibn ʻUmar al-Najātī al-Nīsābūrī]
    Kitāb-i ʻarūz̤-i Jāmī     This treatise discusses different aspects of the art of versification, including meters, verses, letters, syllables, patterns of rhythm, and other topics relating to the poetic arts in early modern Persian poetry. The author, who is identified on folio 2, Mahmud ibn ʻUmar al-Najati al-Nisaburi (died 1328), is also known as Hamid al-Din Mahmud bin ʻUmar Nijati Nishapuri. No information exists about his place and…
    • Contributor: Jāmī - Najātī, Maḥmūd Ibn ʻumar - Ibn Jamīl, Muḥammad ʻārif
    • Date: 1527

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    Kitāb-i Būstān-i Shaykh Saʼdī raḥimahu Allāh
    كتاب بوستان شيخ سعدى رحمه الله     Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2b. Written by Sulṭānmuḥammad al-Kātib. Probably written in Iran. Paper; thick, dark cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan on fol. 2b in blue, gold, and red; fol. 1b-3a and 168b and 169b have elaborate floral decorations in margins; text enclosed in elaborate ruled border in blue-white-gold-red-green-gold; black ink with red section headings;…
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1535

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    [Munājāt]
    [مناجات]     Anthology of sufi religious poetry.
    • Date: 1542

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    Kitāb-i Saḥr-i ḥalāl
    كتاب سحر حلال     Manuscript. Persian. Scribe not indicated. Written in Iran. Paper; fine, beige paper; manuscript opens with a pair of gorgeous illuminated opening pages, separated by tissue; black ink; extremely fine black script, each line of script on these two pages is separated with a gold background painted with a floral motif; text enclpsed in a thin deep-blue ruled border decorated with tiny white 'crosses' surrounds…
    • Contributor: Shīrāzī, Muḥammad
    • Date: 1545

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    Makhzan al-asrār ; Khulāṣat al-khamsah
    مخزن الاسرار ؛ خلاصة الخمسة     Manuscript. Persian. Each work has separate title ; title of first work fol. 1b; title for second work, fol. 82a. Each section has different date: Makhzan al-asrār dated 28 Rajab 954 [9 September 1547]; second section dated 4 Shaʻbān 954 [19 September 1547]. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran or India. Paper: thick, cream color Oriental paper; text in columns in…
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī - Persian Manuscript Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1547

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    Kitāb-i Rawz̤at al-ṣafā
    كتاب روضة الصفا     A history of Iran.
    • Contributor: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad Ibn Khāvandshāh - Ibn Fatḥ Allāh Mīrzā Sayyid Ṭabātabāʼī
    • Date: 1558

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    ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt
    عجايب المخلوقات     Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 2a. Scribe not identified. Place of writing not determined; probably Iran or Turkey. Paper; light cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue and red; text enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold; numerous illustrations; black ink with rubrication and overlining; catchwords. Naskh; 21 lines in written area 17…
    • Contributor: Qazwīnī, Zakarīyā Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1565

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    Timurnamah Persian manuscript of uncertain title or and author; does not appear to be the Timurnanah of Hātifī.
    • Contributor: Fayzali, Muhammad
    • Date: 1569

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    [Yūsuf va Zulaykhā]
    [يوسف و زليخا]     Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribe not identified. Written in Central Asia. Paper; lightly polished cream color laid paper with very faint horizontal chain lines on some pages and no visible watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue and red with pinkish flowers; text enclosed in ruled border of blue, gold, red and blue; text is divided into hemistichs separated by wide columns…
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1583

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    [Gulistān]
    [گلستان]     Manuscript. Persian; first 67 leaves have Turkish translation and there is a brief poem in Ottoman Turkish at end. Title based on comparison with printed editions of Saʻdī's Gulistān. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; manuscript is incomplete lacking an unknown number…
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1593

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    [Unidentified Persian treatise on the Miʻrāj and several other topics from the Hadith]
    Kitāb al-emān     Treatise on the Miʻrāj, and several other doctrines from the Hadith of the Prophet Muḥammad.
    • Contributor: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Library
    • Date: 15??

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    Dīvān-i Shāhī
    ديوان شاهي     Collected poems of Amīr Shāhī Sabzavarī. Dīvān-i Shāhī (Collection of poems by Shāhī) is a divan (collection) of verse by Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī (died 1453; 857 A.H.), a prominent Persian poet of the Timurid era who composed in many of the classical forms of Persian poetry. Amīr Shāhī's poetry belongs to the tradition of Persian mystical love poetry. The collection includes poems composed in…
    • Contributor: Ṣadafī, Muṣṭafá - Amīr Shāhī Sabzavārī
    • Date: 1600

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    Shah-nameh by Firdausi Shahnameh (Book of kings) was composed by the revered Iranian poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). The book recounts in verse the mythological history of ancient Persia and tales of the famous heroes and personalities of Iranian history, from legendary times to the 7th-century reign of Yazdegerd III, the last king of the Sassanid dynasty. Considered the national epic of Iran, the book was widely…
    • Contributor: Firdawsī
    • Date: 1600

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    Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī
    حافظ شيرازي | Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī | fiẓ Shīrāzī     The poems of Ḥafiẓ.
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ - Persian Manuscript Collection (Library of Congress) - Fiẓ
    • Date: 1600

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    [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: Lārī, ʻabd Al-Bārī Muḥammad Maḥmūd - Saʻdī
    • Date: 1602

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    Majmūʻ-i khānī
    مجموع خاني     Islamic law as practiced in India.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī, Yaḥyá
    • Date: 1606

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    [ʻArūz̤-i] Mawlānā Jāmī ; Qāfiyah-ʼi Mawlānā Jāmī ; [Anonymous treatise on astronomy]
    [عروض] مولانا جامى ؛ قافية مولانا جامى     This Persian manuscript dated 1025 AH (1616) contains two works on prosody by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān Jāmī (1414-92), as well as an incomplete, anonymous work on astronomy. Jāmī was a great poet, scholar, and mystic who lived most of his life in Herat, present-day Afghanistan. The 69 leaves of the manuscript are on a variety of papers: thin, pink-colored laid paper (folios 1a-31b);…
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1616

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    Muntakhab-i Shāhʹnāmah-i Ḥakīm Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah va al-maghfirah
    منتخب شاهنامه حكيم ابو قاسم فردوسى، عليه الرحمة و المغفرة     Selections from the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī. This manuscript from the early 17th century contains selections from the Shāhnāmeh (Book of kings), the epic-historical work of Persian literature composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). This beloved epic of pre-Islamic Persia (present-day Iran) was widely read in Persia, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. The manuscript contains three half-page…
    • Contributor: Firdawsī
    • Date: 1618

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    Ḥikāyat-i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl
    حكايت سيف الملوك و بديع الجمال | Qiṣṣah-i Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl     Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badiʼʻ al-Jamāl, also recorded in an Arabic version in the Arabian Nights.
    • Date: 1625

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    al-Mujallad al-avval min kalām Mīr Khvand ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
    المجلد الاول من كلام مير خوند عليه الرحمة     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in India. Paper; thin, polished laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; both sections have almost identical carpet pages with floral unwan in gold, blue, reddish orange and white, with titles in white in gold cartouche, carpet pages have elaborate floral design in margins; text enclosed in a ruled…
    • Contributor: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad Ibn Khāvandshāh
    • Date: 1625

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    Īn kitāb-i Kanz-i daqāʼiq
    اين كتاب كنز دقائق | Kanz al-daqāʼiq | Tarjumah-i Kanz al-daqāʼiq     Persian translation of Nasafī's Kanz al-daqāʼiq.
    • Contributor: Jamāl Muḥammad Valad-I Muḥammad Ashraf - Kirmāni, Naṣr Al-Dīn Ibn Muḥammad - Nasafī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad
    • Date: 1626

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    Yūsuf va Zulaykhā min taṣnīf-i Ḥaz̤rat Mawlānā ʻAbd al-Raḥmān-i Jāmī
    يوسف و زليخا من تصنيف حضرت مولانا عبد الرحمان جامي     Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in India. Paper; dark cream-color unpolished, coarse laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; severely worm damaged; no borders; black ink with some rubrication. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 18 x 11 cm. Folio 1b-136b. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M40. Dark brown leather binding; text partially disbound; poor condition. Also…
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1643

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    [Calligrapher's sample book.]
    Huwa al-rashīd     Calligrapher's sample book.
    • Contributor: Daylamī, ʻabd Al-Rashīd
    • Date: 1650

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    Pādishāhnāmah
    پادشاهنامه     Contains a biography of Shāhjahān from his birth through the first 10 years of his reign by Qazvīnī. This work is followed by the second and third parts of Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh's ʻAmāl-i Ṣāliḥ's history, starting with the 11th year of Shāhjahān's reign and including the wars of succession and his death. Cf, the similar composite manuscript ms. no. 566 in Bankipore, Bengal. Oriental…
    • Contributor: Muqīm, Muḥammad - Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Abī Al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī
    • Date: 1650

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    Zubūr Āl Muḥammad
    زبور آل محمد | Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ | Also known as: Zubūr Ahl al-Bayt | Also known as: Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādīyah | Title on container: Zābūr Āl Muḥammad, 1064 A.H., Ad'iyah wa-mawāiẓ     Collection of doxologies and prayers, ascribed to ʻAlī or to his grandson Zayn al-ʻĀbidin ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn
    • Contributor: ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib - Zayn Al-ʻābidīn ʻalī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1654

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    Kitāb-i Majālis al-muʼminīn
    کتاب مجالس المؤمنين     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Written by Ibn Murād al-Ḥusaynī Muḥammad Zamān. Probably written in Iran. Paper; unpolished, slightly yellowed cream color laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, light blue, red and dark blue; title in red in gold cartouche; text on fol. 1b-2a has interlinear gold design; text enclosed in ruled border…
    • Contributor: Shushtarī, Nūr Allāh Ibn ʻabd Allāh
    • Date: 1658

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    Dīvān-i Kalīm
    ديوان كليم | Díván-i Kelím     Abū Ṭālib Kalīm Hamadānī (or Kāshānī, died 1651; 1061 A.H.) was one of the foremost Persian poets of the 17th century. He was born in Hamadan (present-day Iran) but appears to have lived in Kashan (also in Iran) for a sizeable portion of his life--hence the appellation Kāshānī. He received his education in Kashan and in Shiraz before moving to India to serve the…
    • Contributor: Kalīm, Abū Ṭālib
    • Date: 1695

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    [Qurʼān] Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān.…
    • Date: 1695

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    Durrat al-tāj
    درة التاج     Shiite prayer book; consists of prayers to be said on the visitation of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib's tomb. This manuscript of Durrat al-tāj (The crown jewel) is a Shiite prayer book, consisting of prayers to be said when making a visitation to the tomb of Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (circa 601-61). 'Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib is one of the most revered religious…
    • Contributor: Ibn Rustam Khān Ṣafī Qulī
    • Date: 16??

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    [Selections from Ḥāfiẓ by the calligrapher ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī] Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Colophon: ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Daylamī. Written in India. Paper; thick, cream color oriental paper; black ink; decorated unwan on fol. 1b in blue and gold; six lines to the page; text of each line in text-box alternatingly aligned right and left; entire text within an outer gold border near the page edges; and a second smaller gold border surrounding…
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ - Daylamī, ʻabd Al-Rashīd
    • Date: 16??

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    Subḥat al-abrār
    سبحة الابرار | Sohbo alabrar     Manuscript. Persian. Title from unwan. Name of scribe not indicated. Written in Iran or India. Paper: cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate unwan and gold highlighting between lines of text on first two leaves; black ink with red section titles; blue and gold borders; few marginal corrections and additions; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 12 lines in written area…
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 16??

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    Tuḥfat al-salāt
    تحفة الصلوات | Kitāb tuḥfat al-ṣalāt     Treatise in eight chapters on ritual prayer.
    • Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 16??

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    Collection of choicest poems Incomplete collection of poems.
    • Date: 16??

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    Az̲ān-i ṣuḥb
    اذان صبح     Manuscript. Persian and Arabic. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of A.A. Kachif, Nov. 20, 1930. Written in Iran. Paper; thick, polished light cream color paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, blue, red, and white with wide borders of a similar floral pattern and similar colors of fol. 1b and 2a; an outer border of two very thin lines accompanies all…
    • Date: 16??

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    [Khamsah]
    [خمسة] | Khamseh : lyric and romantic poems     Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied from container. Scribe not identified. Written in India? Paper; thin, lightly polished laid paper with vertical laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; elaborate floral carpet page in blue, gold, pink, and black surrounded by three borders: the outer of a gold floral design, the next of a repeating design in blue and gold and the inner of…
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 16??

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    Khāvarānʹnāmah
    خاوراننامه     Long poem on the Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib.
    • Contributor: Ibn Ḥusām, Muḥammad
    • Date: 16??

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    [Qajar cosmological talismanic work] Cosmological talismanic work with numerous illustrations, numerical tables and charms.
    • Date: 1700

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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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    Dīvān-i Mawlānā Ẓuhūrī
    ديوان مولانا ظهورى     Poems of Muḥammad al-Ẓuhūri.
    • Contributor: Ẓuhūrī, Nūr Al-Dīn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1710

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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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    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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    [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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    Sikandarnānah min taṣnīf-i Mawlawī Niẓāmī,
    سكندرنامه من تصنيف مولوى نظامى     Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; coarse light brown laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with section headings in red; marginal notations; minor worm damage throughout; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 19 lines in written area 19 x 9.5 cm. Fol. 1b-184a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M17. Sewn together but…
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 1750

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    Kullīyāt-i Ḥāfiẓ
    كليات حافظ     The poems of Ḥāfiẓ with an anonymous Ottoman Turkish translation and partial commentary.
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ
    • Date: 1750

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    Waqiat-i-Nadiri (History of Nadir Shah)
    Waqa-i-Nadiri | Vāqiʻāt-i Nādiri     Historical study of Iran and Afghanistan during the reign of Nādir Shāh, 1688-1747. Waqiat-i Nadiri (literally "Events of Nadir") is a historical manuscript that chronicles the political and military career of Nādir Shāh, who was born in 1688 and rose to power in Iran during the 1720s; he became shah in 1736. He is known as a military warrior famous for his campaigns in…
    • Contributor: Mahdī Khān Astarābādī
    • Date: 1759

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    Sharḥ-i Jām-i jahān numā
    شرح جام جهان نما     Book of historical and other anecdotes, beginning with anecdotes about nature.
    • Date: 1759

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    Tārīkh-i Nādirī
    تاريخ نادري     Manuscript is incomplete; text breaks off abruptly at second word of line 5, leaf 257a. Tārīkh-i Nādirī (The history of Nadir) is a historical work that chronicles the political and military career of Nadir Shah, who was born in 1688 and rose to power in Iran during the 1720s; he became shah in 1736. (This work is also known as Jahāngushāy-i Nādirī in reference…
    • Contributor: Mahdī Khān Astarābādī - Munro, Thomas
    • Date: 1760

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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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    Nuskhah--i Tavārīkh-i Sind
    نسخة تواريخ سند     Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Written by Muḥammad Tahsīn. Fol. 1a has name of former owner David Anderson. Written in India. Paper; thin, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; numerous notations in English on first few leaves; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in wrtten area 18.5 x 9 cm. Fol. 1b-179b. Library of Congress.…
    • Contributor: Maʻṣūm, Mīr Muḥammad
    • Date: 1768

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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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    [Persian calligraphy studies.] Manuscript. Persian Title from container. Written by Salmān Bint ʻAlī Pāshā. Written in India or Turkey. Paper; heavy, reinforced laid paper with vertical chain lines and no visible watermarks; sections contining lines of poetry are inlaid; text enclosed in a ruled border of thin blue, wider gold and a very wide greenish blue border; verses are divided by a similar wide greenish line and…
    • Contributor: Salmān Bint ʻalī Pāshā
    • Date: 1772

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    Sāqīʹnāmah
    ساقينامه     Manuscript. Chagatai; some Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran; possibly between Tabriz and Shiraz. Paper; cream color laid paper; opening page (detached) has unwan in blue and gold; text enclosed in ruled border of blue and gold; pages divided into two columns separating the text, each framed with a blue and gold border; black ink. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines. Library of…
    • Contributor: Ishrāq, ʻabd Al-Fattāh
    • Date: 1777

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    Ṭūṭīʹnāmah
    طوطينامه     Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color laid paper of varying thickness, with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords on versos. Nastaʻliq; 14-16 lines in written area approximately 18 x 9.5 cm. Folios 1a-200b Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 62. Limp red leather binding; originally with embossed gold medallions in…
    • Contributor: Nakhshabī, Z̤iyāʼ Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1785

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    Kitāb-i qiṣṣah-ʼi Kāmʹrūp
    كتاب قصۀ كامروپ     Manuscript. Persian Caption title. Name of scribe not indicated; perhaps written by Captain William Franklin. Written in India. Paper; think, polished, cream-color laid paper; no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with some marginal notes in English; red ink in caption only; catchwords on rectos. Note on flyleaf: [2 words illegible] Guiliemi Franklin Liber Kissa Camarùp vel Historia Canaropi principiis ex antiquo descritte[sic]…
    • Date: 1788

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    Qarābādīn-i Maʻṣūmī
    قرابادين معصومى     Treatise on medicine and medicinal plants.
    • Contributor: Shīrāzī, Maʻṣūm Ibn Karīm Al-Dīn - Mumtaz UN-Nissa Begum
    • Date: 1790

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    Qiṣṣah-ʼi Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl
    قصۀ سيف الملوك و بديع الجمال | Qiṣṣah-ʼi ʻishq al-juzʼ al-awwal Sayf al-Mulūk va Badīʻ al-Jamāl | Saif al-Muluk wa Badīʻ al-Jamāl     Tale of Sayf al-Mulūk and Badiʼʻ al-Jamāl, also recorded in an Arabic version in the Arabian Nights.
    • Date: 1790

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    Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah
    كتاب كليات شيخ سعدي عليه الرحمه     Complete works of the poet Saʻdi.
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1792

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    Bahāristān-i Jāmī
    بهارستان جامي     Collection of memorable sayings, witticisms, anecdotes, etc., in prose and poetry in 8 books; concerning (book 1) Sufis and saints, 2) sayings of the philosophers, 3) justice of kings, 4) generosity, 5) love, 6) jokes and witticisms, 7) poets, and 8) on animals; the text is incompete and breaks off shortly after the beginning of book 7.
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1793

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    [Ātashkadah]
    [آتشكده]     Biographical dictionary of Persian poets with extensive excerpts from their works.
    • Contributor: Āz̲ar Baygdilī, Luṭf ʻalī Ibn Āqā Khān
    • Date: 1795

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    Gūlistān, taṣnīf-i Ḥaz̤rat Shaykh Saʻdī Shīrāzī
    گولستان، تصنيف حضرت شيخ سعدي شيريزي     Manuscript. Persian. Title from colophon. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper: thick cream color Indian paper; no borders; black ink with rubrication; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area 17.5 x 7 cm. Folios 1b-169a. Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M80. Previous owner's name on flyleaf: Robt. Atkinson, Scholar, 14 Trinity College. Nineteenth century half-leather binding in brown…
    • Contributor: Atkinson, Robt. (Robert) - Saʻdī
    • Date: 1798

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    Bustān-i Saʻdī
    بستان سعدى     Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Scribe not identified. Possibly written in India. Date on fol. 1a; manuscript may be older. Paper; medium cream color paper with no visible watermarks; fol. 1b has floral unwan in gold, blue, red and white contains the Basmalah; text block enclosed in ruled border of one thin blue and one wide gold line; text itself is set off…
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1798

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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: ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib - Vahīd Ḥusaynī - Alī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
    • Date: 17??

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    Risālah-i Firdawsīyah
    رسالة فردوسية     Anonymous miscellany in prose and poetry dealing with spring, education, medical matters, trades, military matters and finally a lengthy section in praise of an unnamed individual. This manuscript is an anthology of works in prose by the Persian poet Tughra-yi Mashhadi (died before 1667-68). Risālah-ʼi Firdawsīya (The paradisal epistle) is the name of the first item in the anthology. It is both an evocation…
    • Date: 17??

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    Hāz̲ihi al-nuskhah musammá Hasht bihisht min taṣnīf-i Amīr Khusraw quddisa sirruh
    هذه النسخة مسمى هشت بهشت من تصنيف امير خسرو قدس سره     Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Ghulām Nabī walad Miyān ʻAbd al-Ghafūr. Copied in Pir Ramzan Ghazi neighborhood, Multan, Pakistan. Paper: glossy laid paper of varying thickness with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; small unwan in red, green, gold and black ink with a thick black border; black ink, section headings in red ink; catchwords on rectos. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area 14.5…
    • Contributor: Ghulām Nabī Walad Miyān ʻabd Al-Ghafūr - Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī
    • Date: 17??

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    [Anvār-i Suhaylī]
    [انوار سهيلي]     Persian translation of Kalīlah va Dimna
    • Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 17??

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    Şerh-i Gülistân
    Golestan     Manuscript. Turkish (Arabic script) and Persian. Title from bottom edge. Name of scribe not indicated Probably written in Turkey. Paper: very light cream-color polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate floral unvan in blue, gold and red; text enclosed in a fine ruled border of black and gold ink; rubrication with overlining; few marginal corrections; catchwords on rectos. Naskh;…
    • Contributor: Bosnavı̂ Sudi
    • Date: 17??

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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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    Inshaʼ-i Kamāl al-Dīn
    انشا كمال الدين | Inshai Kemal Oddin | Insha Kamal-o-Deen | Insha Kumalo Deen     Treatise on the forms of letters on various subjects in all styles.
    • Contributor: Kamāl Al-Dīn
    • Date: 17??

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    Inshā-yi Khalīfah
    انشاى خليفه | Jāmiʻ al-qavānīn | Inshai Khalfia     Collection of the author's letters; widely used as a school text for teaching Persian letter-writing.
    • Contributor: Kanawjī, Khalīfah Shāh Muḥammad
    • Date: 17??

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    Navāb Vālā Maqām-i maqbūl
    نواب والا مقام مقبول | Navab Vala maqām maqbūl     Apparently about North Arcot; authorship not stated and uncertain, perhaps by Muhammad Ali Khan, Nawab of Arcot.
    • Contributor: Muhammad Ali Khan, Umdat Al-Mulk Anwar Al-Din
    • Date: 17??

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    Farhang-i Rashīdī
    فرهنگ رشىدى | Farhangi Rashidi; Persian dictionary     Dictionary of the Persian language.
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Rashīd Ibn ʻabd Al-Ghafūr Tattavī
    • Date: 17??

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    Incomplete collection of two Arabic works and two unidentified poems in Persian An incomplete compilation including an Arabic treatise on the sultanate and caliphate based on a hadith of Kaʻb al-Akhbār with an interlinear Persian translation, an Arabic treatise on the legal division of human actions into lawful and unlawful, and two unidentified poems in Persian; the last of the poems is incomplete.
    • 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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    [Pandnāmah.]
    [پندنامه.]     Manuscript. Persian. Title based on comparison with printed edtions. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in Turkey. Papaer; light cream color lightly polished laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; text enclosed in and divided by single red lines; gold unwan; black ink with section headings in red ink; catchwords. Manuscript appears to be unfinished as section titles end at…
    • Contributor: ʻaṭṭār, Farīd Al-Dīn
    • Date: 17??

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    [Collection of short texts or extracts from various manuscripts in Persian and Arabic concerning the reign of Maḥmūd Shāh] Collection of texts concerning the reign of Mahmud Begara, Sultan of Gujarat.
    • Date: 17??

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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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    [Gulistān]
    [گلستان]     Fragmentary , highly decorated and illuminated copy of Saʻdī's Gulistān
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 17??

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    Dīvān-i Rūḥī
    ديوان روحي     Dīvān of a certain Rūhī, perhaps the divan poet Bağdatlı Ruhî (died 1605).
    • Contributor: Rūḥī
    • Date: 17??

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    [Medical text on poisons and their antidotes] Treatise on poisons and their antidotes.
    • Contributor: Khvārazmshāh, Dākhiyānī
    • Date: 17??

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    ʻAhdʹnāmah
    عهدنامه | Ahd-namah / India 18th c. | Book of prayers     [Summary]
    • Date: 17??

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    Qaṣīdah
    قصيدة     Elegies for the Shīʻah imāms.
    • Date: 17??

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    [Essays on entertainment] Illustrated erotic work.
    • Contributor: Muḥammad Ṣadr Al-Dīn
    • Date: 17??

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    [Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ]
    [ديوان حافظ]     Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Persian. Title based on comparison with other copies. Scribe not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, polished cream color laid paper with vertical chain line and no visible watermarks; black ink; catchwords. Folio 59 on modern paper, with inscription in purple ink, dated…
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ
    • Date: 17??

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

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    Jild-i avval Siyar al-mutaʼakhkhirīn, taṣnīf-i Sayyid Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān ibn-i Sayyid Hidāyatʹʻalīkhān Ṭabāṭabāī Ḥusaynī
    جلد اول سير المتاخرين، تصنيف سيد غلام حسين خان ابن سيد هدايةعليخان طباطباي حسيني     History of India in the 18th century.
    • Contributor: Ghulām Ḥusayn Khān Ṭabāṭabāʼī
    • Date: 1800

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    [Unidentified collection of poems] Collection of poems by Ḥāfiẓ and poems based on lines of his poetry.
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ
    • Date: 1800

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    Shāh Jihān
    شاه جهان | Shāh Jahān     Biography of the Mogul Emperor Shahjahan.
    • Contributor: Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh - Straton, Francis
    • Date: 1800

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    Dīvān-i Khvājah
    ديوان خواجه     Poems of Ḥāfiẓ.
    • Contributor: Ḥusayn Khān Mushīr Al-Dawlah - Nāṣir Al-Dīn Shāh - Persian Manuscript Collection (Library of Congress) - Ḥāfiẓ - Muḥammad Riz̤ā Ibn-I ʻabd Al-ʻazīz
    • Date: 1801

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    Skander-Namah
    Yāghūth     Legend of Alexander the Great in verse.
    • Contributor: Niẓāmī Ganjavī
    • Date: 1802

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    Kitāb-i akhlāq al-muḥsinī
    كتاب اخلاق المحسني     Text on fundamentals of Islamic ethics.
    • Contributor: Munro, Thomas - Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 1807

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    Hāz̲ā duʻā-yi ṣanamay-i Quraysh az Mawlānā Amīr al-Muʼminīn
    هاذا دعاى صنمي قريش از امير المؤمنين | Hādhaʼ duʻā-yi ṣanamay-i Quraysh az Mawlānā Amīr al-Muʼminīn     Text of the Shīʻah prayer of ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib titled Duʻa-yi ṣanam-i Quraysh together with an interlinear Persian translation.
    • Contributor: ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib - Shīrāzī, Abū Al-Qāsim
    • Date: 1808

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    Risālah dar faqah Treatise on poverty.
    • Contributor: Sayyid Rawshan ʻalī
    • Date: 1808

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    Kitāb-i Tārīkh-i ʻĀlamʹāra
    كتاب تاريخ عالمأرا     History of Shāh ʻAbbas of the Safavid dynasty and his predecessors. This early 19th-century manuscript contains a history of Shāh ʻAbbas (1571-1629, reigned 1588-1629) and his predecessors, composed in the late 16th or early 17th century by a contemporary. The manuscript most likely was written in Iran. The paper is a light cream, glazed laid stock. The text is written in nasta'liq script, 23…
    • Contributor: Kāzarūnī, Ghulām Ḥusayn Ibn ʻaṭṭār ʻalīʻaskar - Iskandar Munshī
    • Date: 1812

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    Nuskhah-i Divān-i Hilālī
    Dīvān-i Halālī     The poems of Badr al-Dīn al-Hilālī with an introduction.
    • Contributor: Hilālī, Badr Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1814

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    Insha-ʼi ʻajūbīyah
    انشۀ عجوبيه | Inshai ajubiyah | Inshā-ʼi khalīfah     Guide to writing both official and private correspondence.
    • Date: 1815

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    Gulshan-i tawḥīd
    گلشن توحيد /     Tauhid (the belief in the unity of God) is a central tenet of Islam that also serves as one of the main inspirations of the Masnavi (The spiritual couplets) of Maulana Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-73). This principle also appears in the title of Ibrahim Shahidi Dadah's book Gulshan-i Tauḥīd (Garden of Unitarianism), a work that was inspired by Rumi's well-loved Masnavi. Shahidi Dadah…
    • Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī - Shāhidī Dadah Mughlavī, Ibrāhīm Ibn Ṣāliḥ
    • Date: 1817

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    Daftar-i avval-i Ṭibb-i akbarī
    دفتر اول طب اكبرى | Daftar-i duvvum-i Ṭibb-i akbarī     Based on the Arabic treatise Sharḥ al-asbāb by Nafīs ibn ʻIwaḍ (-approximately 1449); covers the symptoms and treatment of diseases specific to particular parts and general diseases.
    • Contributor: Shāh Arzānī, Muḥammad Akbar Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1822

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    Mas̲navī
    مثنوى     Manuscript. Persian. Marginalia dated 1827. Title from final section (daftar 7). Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; (main section) light cream color unpolished laid paper; no visible chain lines or watermarks; unwans in gold, blue and green had the head of each daftar; text inclosed in ruled border of three lines in blue and red; black ink with rubrication; page…
    • Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī - Mumtaz UN-Nissa Begum
    • Date: 1822

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    Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Gulistān
    هذا كتاب گلستان     Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1a. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; cream-color, unpolished laid-paper; with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; manuscript appears to be an older manuscript (perhaps 18th century) with missing sections and conclusion added by a later hand and dated 1238 [1822 or 1823], paper of newer section is also laid paper with horizontal chain…
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1822

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    Iʻtiqādnāmah
    اعتقادنامه | Persian creed     Statement of Shiite creed in Persian.
    • Contributor: Amherst College. Library - Merrick, James Lyman
    • Date: 1822

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    [Unidentified religious treatise (risālah)] The incomplete fragment of a manuscript without a binding is a religious treatise with many Arabic excerpts and the commentary and text in Persian..
    • Date: 1822

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    Dīvān-i Hilālī
    ديوان هلالى     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Hilālī, Badr Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1822

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    Three treatises on Persian letter-writing and composition Three works on Persian letter-writing and composition.
    • Contributor: Rāy, Nūndah - Kanawjī, Khalīfah Shāh Muḥammad
    • Date: 1823

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    al-Muʻjam fī ās̲ār mulūk al-ʻajam
    المعجم فى آثار ملوك العجم     Treatise on the deeds of the Persian kings.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī Qazvīnī, Sharaf Al-Dīn Faz̤l Allāh
    • Date: 1825

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    Sharh-i namaz This work is not a commentary on the namāz, but a selection of Qurʼānic sūrahs and prayers to be read during Ramaḍān.
    • Contributor: Ṭālib Nizhād
    • Date: 1825

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    [Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām]
    [کتاب تشريح الاقوام] | Inscription title: History of the origin and distinguishing marks of the different Castes of India | History of the origin and distinguishing marks of the different Castes of India     Son of a Scottish military adventurer and a woman of the Indian martial nobility, James Skinner (1778-1841) became a famous soldier with his private regiment Skinner Horse, which still continues in the Indian Army. He was a fluent writer in Persian, the prestige language of India in his day, and composed his "Kitab-i tasrih al-aqvam" (History of the Origin and Distinguishing Marks of the…
    • Contributor: Skinner, James - Cole, Timothy - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Watkins, J. - Collins, Philip S.
    • Date: 1825

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    Shiʻah prayer manual, 19th century Shīʻah prayer book with brief passages in Arabic followed by a Persian translation and brief commentary.
    • Date: 1826

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    Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ
    ديوان حافظ     Poems. Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ
    • Date: 1828

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    Bustān-i Shaykh Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Saʻdī Shīrāzī, maʻahu farhang va sharḥ-i Mawlavī Tamīz al-Dīn = Boostan
    بستان شيخ مصلح الدين سعدى شيرازى، معه فرهنگ و شرح مولوى تميز الدين = Boostan / | Boostan     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Saʻdī - Arzānī, Tamīz Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1828

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    Tāj al-Maṣādir
    تاج المصادر     Persian dictionary of Arabic particles.
    • Contributor: Bayhaqī, Aḥmad Ibn ʻalī
    • Date: 1829

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    Dīvān-i silsilah va al-z̲ahab min ashʻār
    ديوان سلسلة و ال-ذهب من شسعار /     Dīvān-i Silsilah va al-Zahab (literally, The collection book of the chain of gold) is a work of Persian literature in verse. It forms volume one of a seven-volume literary collection of Mowlana Nur al-Din Abd al-Rahman Jami (1414-92), the famous Persian scholar, poet, and Sufi. The entire collection is known as Haft awrang (The seven thrones) and was one of Jami's first major works.…
    • Contributor: Jāmī
    • Date: 1830

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    Tuḥfat al-muʼminīn
    تحفة المؤمنين | Manuscript on treatment of illness by herbs     Work on materia medica dedicated to the Safavid Shāh Sulaymān.
    • Contributor: Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Muʼmin
    • Date: 1830

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    Kitāb-i dafʻ al-hazl : kih ʻibāratast az radd-i javāb-i risālah-ʼi kih mawsūm ast bi-Adillah-i qavīyah bar ʻadam-i javāz-i kabīsah dar sharīʻat-i Zartushtīyah
    کتاب دفع الهزل : که عبارتست از رد جواب رسالۀ که موسوم است بادله قويه بر عدم جواز کبيسه در شريعت زرتشتيه ... / | Dafʻ al-hazl | Dafaʻ ool haz'l : a refutation of the work entitled "Ressallæ uddullæ quvee-yeh bur uddumæ juvazæ Kubbeesæ dur shurreeate Zurtoshtee-yêh"     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Hāshim
    • Date: 1833

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    Excerpts from classical Persian poetry
    Ghazalīyāt-i shaykh Saʻdī     Selection of poems from classical Persian poets.
    • Contributor: Ḥāfiẓ - Jāmī - Saʻdī
    • Date: 1833

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    Īn mujallad-i suvvum ast az Kitāb-i ḥayāt al-qulūb tālīf khādim-i akhbār aʼimmah-ʼi aṭhār Muḥammad Bāqir ibn-i Muḥammad Taqī
    اين مجلد سوم است از كتاب حيوة القلوب تاليف خادم اخبار ائمة اطهار محمد باقر بن محمد تقي | Hyât-ul-Kuloob, or Life of Hearts, vol. III     Biographies of Pre-Islamic prophets, Qurʼanic prophets and Shiite Imams.
    • Contributor: Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad Taqī - Merrick, James Lyman
    • Date: 1837

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    Kitāb-i Tārīkh-i Bakhtiyārī
    کتاب تاريخ بختيارى / | Caption title on added title page: Kitāb-i Khulāṣat al-aʻṣār fī tārīkh al-Bakhtiyār | Khulāṣat al-aʻṣār fī tārīkh al-Bakhtiyār | Tārīkh-i Bakhtiyārī | Copy 2 has spine title: Tārīkh al-Bakhtiyār     Lithographed. Pagination ceases after page 399. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Lisān Al-Salṭanah Sipihr - Sardār Asʻad, ʻalī Qulī Khān
    • Date: 1838

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    Bāb-i haftum dar imāmat
    باب هفتم در امامت     Summary of Shīʻah doctrine and the Imamate.
    • Contributor: Dihlawī, ʻabd Al-ʻazīz Ibn Aḥmad
    • Date: 1840

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    [Anthology of 3 Persian texts, primarily on the Mughal Empire.] Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Scribes not identified. Written in India. Paper; coarse, cream color laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication on some texts; catchwords. Work contiains: [1]. A collection of letters and notes by Muhammad Bahadur Shah II, King of Delhi, 1775-1862 (dated 1855) -- [2]. Unidentified historical treatise (undated) -- [3]. One leaf numbered…
    • Contributor: Abū Al-Faz̤l Ibn Mubārak - Muhammad Bahadur Shah II - Akbar
    • Date: 1841

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    Kullīyāt
    کليات     Lithographed. Section headings highlighted in gold. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1841

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    Shāhnāmah
    شاهنامه     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Name of scribe or scribes not indicated. Purchase Written in Kashmir, India. Paper; light-cream paper; four colums per pate with triple-ruled frames of black, blue, and gold; column divisions illuminated in red, blue, and gilt; large illuminated headpieces at ff. 2.v, 153.v, 307v, and 465v., each having a different design, comprising two to three cartouches of red-on-gold calligraphy, surmounted by…
    • Contributor: Firdawsī
    • Date: 1842

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    Muntakhab-i Mas̲navī-i sharīf
    منتخب مثنوي شريف     Selections of the Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi.
    • Contributor: Jalāl Al-Dīn Rūmī - ʻarīf Jābirī, Shāh ʻālim Gharīb
    • Date: 1845

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    Nihāyat al-ʻuqūl
    نهاية العقول | Risalah-e Iman     Manuscript. Persian Ttitle from fol. 1b. Name of scribe not indicated. Probably written in India. Paper; light cream color laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; pages reinforced around edges with 4 cm wide borders; marginal notations with some text loss due to trimming; black ink; no catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in written area 14.5 x 8 cm. Fol. 1b-22a. Library of Congress.…
    • Contributor: Rāzī, Fakhr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn ʻumar
    • Date: 1845

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    Nān-i qalyah
    نان قليه /     Poems.
    • Contributor: ʻalavī Ibn Muṣṭafá
    • Date: 1845

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    Muntakhab al-lughāt-i Shāhjahānī
    منتخب اللغات شاهجهانى | Muntakhab al-lughāt-i Shāh Jahānī     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Rashīd Ibn ʻabd Al-Ghafūr Tattavī
    • Date: 1846

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    Lughat-i ʻArab
    لغت عرب | Loghate 'Arab     In Persian and Arabic.
    • Date: 1846

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    Dīvān-i Nāṣir ʻAlī
    ديوان ناصر على     Poems. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Nāṣir ʻalī Sirhindī
    • Date: 1846-01-01

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    Kulliyāt-i Saʻdī In Persian. Tile from bottom edge. Lithograph. Some sections and pages pirinted on various colors of paper.
    • Contributor: Saʻdī
    • Date: 1847-01-01

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    Kārnāmah-i Ḥaydarī, yā, Siyar-i sarvarī va maʼās̲ir-i ṣafdarī-i Ḥaydar Shāh ... bānī-i dawlat-i Islāmīyah-i Maysūr : muz̲ayyal bi-ḥāl va maʼl̄-i farzand-i arjumandash Ṭīpū Sulṭān : farāgiriftah az rivāyāt-i mundarajah-i kutub-i sih qawm-i …
    کارنامه حيدرى، يا، سير سرورى ومآثر صفدرى حيدر شاه ... بانى دولت اسلاميه ميسور : مذيل بحال ومآل فرزند ارجمندش طيپو سلطان : فراگرفته از روايات مندرجه کتب سه قوم انگريز وفرانسيس وهندوستانى که لقب تاريخيش تواريخ گزيده است / | Siyar-i sarvarī va maʼās̲ir-i ṣafdarī-i Ḥaydar Shāh | Kárnáma i Hydary, or, Memoirs of the brave and noble Hyder Shah | Memoirs of the brave and noble Hyder Shah     Lithograph. Includes bibliographical references (page 17). In Persian.
    • Contributor: Ghulām Muḥammad Sulṭān
    • Date: 1848

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    Sharḥ-i Gulistān
    شرح گلستان     Commentary on the Gulistān of Saʻdī.
    • Contributor: Iṣfahānī, Muḥammad Rafīʻ Ibn Muḥammad Shafīʻ Ibn Muḥammad Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1849

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    Ṣanāyiʻ-i asṭurlāb
    صنايع اسطرلاب     Manuscript. Persian. Title from fol. 1b. Pagination: 1st work: fol. 1b-26a (14 lines); 2nd work: fol. 27b-43a. (15 lines) First work written by ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Shīrāzī; scribe of second work not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. First work written in al-Ṭihrān [Tehran], Iran; second work written in Iran, city not identified. Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with…
    • Contributor: Qāʼinī, Qāsim ʻalī
    • Date: 1849

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    Hāz̲ā al-mujallad Majālis al-muttaqīn
    هذا المجلد مجالس المتقين /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Baraghānī, Muḥammad Taqī Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1849

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    [Kullīyāt]
    [کليات]     In Persian.
    • Contributor: Anvarī, Awḥad Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1849

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    [Unidentified Persian work on hadith] Commentary on hadith.
    • Date: 1850

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    Muḥārabah-ʼi Kābul va Qandahar
    / | محاربۀ کابل و قندهار /     Historical account of Afghan wars, 1838-1919, between the states of Kabul and Kandahar against the British invaders, written by Munshī ʻAbd al-Karīm, a companion of Shāh Shujāʻ al-Mulk, the Amir of Afghanistan. Muḥārabah-ʼi Kābul va Qandahar (The war of Kabul and Kandahar) is an account of the First Afghan War (1839-42) by Munshi ʻAbd al-Karīm, an associate of Shāh Shujāʻ, the emir of Afghanistan.…
    • Contributor: ʻabd Al-Karīm - Abd Al-Karīm
    • Date: 1850-01-01

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    Malfūẓāt
    ملفوظات | Malfoozate Teemoor     Memoirs of Timur originally written in Chagatay, now lost, translated into Persian by the Mughal scholar Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī. The 14th-century Turkic-Mongol ruler Timur (Tamerlane) wrote a memoir in Chagatai Turkish, the original of which is now lost. The work was intended as a book of advice for princes and rulers and has been given various titles over the years, including, as in this…
    • Contributor: Abū Ṭālib Al-Ḥusaynī - Timur
    • Date: 1851

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    Surūr-i sult̤ānī : tarjumah-yi Shamshīrk̲h̲ānī An Urdu translation of Tavakkul Bayg's Persian abridgment of the Shāhnāmah.
    • Contributor: Tavakkul Bayg - Rajab ʻalī Beg Surūr
    • Date: 1851

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    Hāz̲ā Kitāb-i Dabistān al-maz̲āhib
    هاذا کتاب دبستان المذاهب | Dabistān al-maz̲āhib     "Az rū-yi chāp-i Bandar nivishtah va bi-diqqat muqābalah shudah, sanah-i 1267". Erroneously attributed to Muḥsin Fānī. Lithographed. In Persian. "از روى چاپ بندر نوشته و بدقت مقابله شده، سنه ١٢٦٧".
    • Contributor: Fānī, Muḥsin
    • Date: 1851

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    Har sih daftar-i Abū al-Faz̤l
    هر سه دفتر ابو الفضل     Collection of letters penned for Emperor Akbar, 1542-1605, by his trusted lieutenant Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak, 1551-1602, along with some of the latter's miscellaneous prose writings collected in Part 3 (Daftar-i sivvum). Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Abū Al-Faz̤l Ibn Mubārak
    • Date: 1852

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    Haz̲a al-risālah al-sharīf al-mawsūm va mulaqqab bi-Tuḥfat al-ʻāshiqīn
    Tuḥfat al-ʻāshiqīn | هذ الرساله الشريف الموسوم و ملقب بتحفة العاشقين     On aphrodisiacs and courtship; early works to 1800.
    • Contributor: Avicenna
    • Date: 1852-01-01

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    Qiṣṣah-ʼi Shamsʹābād
    / | قصۀ شمسأباد /     This work is the first installment of Qiṣṣah-i Shams Ābād (Story of Shams Abad) by Qamar al-Din Akbar Abadi. The author was the editor of Asʻad al-akhbār (The most propitious news), an early Urdu periodical published at a printing house of the same name in Agra, India, in circa 1840. (The appellation Akbar Abadi refers to Akbar Abad, the name of Agra during the…
    • Contributor: Khān, Qamar Al-Dīn
    • Date: 1852-01-01

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    Taṣdīq al-Masīḥ radʻ-i kalim al-qabīḥ
    تصديق المسيح ردع کلم القبيح     A reply to Christian objections against Islam and Prophet Muḥammad, -632.
    • Contributor: Faqīr Muḥammad Jihlamī
    • Date: 1852-01-01

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    Hāz̲ā kitāb-i Sirr-i bakhyah
    هذا کتاب سر بخيه | Sirr-i bakhiyah | Sar-i bakhyah     Manuscript. Persian. Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Possibly written in northern Iran. Paper: tan colored glazed laid paper with horizontal chain line and obscured armorial watermark, and countermark G M ; black ink in cursive Nastaʻliq; catchwords; lacuna from Folio 1-26 caused by insect or rodent damage, with some loss of text. Nastaʻliq; 13 lines in…
    • Date: 1853

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    Hāz̲ā kitāb Zīnat al-majālis
    هذا کتاب زينة المجالس     Caption title. Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Majdī, Muḥammad Ibn Abī Ṭālib
    • Date: 1853

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    Jild-i avval mushtamal bar panj mujallad az jumlah-i haft jild-i tārīkh-i sābiqah-i Muḥammad Khāvand Shāh
    جلد اول مشتمل بر پنج مجلد از جمله هفت جلد تاريخ سابقه محمد خاوند شاه ... / | Rawz̤at al-ṣafā | Vol. 2 has title: Jild-i shishum az mujalladāt-i Tārīkh-i rawz̤at al-ṣafā     Lithographed. Pts. 8-10 were written by Riz̤āʹqulī Khān Hidāyat, as a supplement to Rawz̤at̲ al-ṣafā, under the title Tārīkh-i Rawz̤at̲ al-ṣafā-yi Nāṣirī. In Persian. complete in 2 volumes: 10 volumes in 2; dates: 1270-1274 [1853-1857]
    • Contributor: Mīr Khvānd, Muḥammad Ibn Khāvandshāh - Hidāyat, Riz̤ā Qulī Khān
    • Date: 1853

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    Kitāb-i Anvār-i Suhaylī
    کتاب انوار سهيلى /     Lithographed. In Persian.
    • Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
    • Date: 1854

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    [Ikhtiyārāt-i badīʻī.]
    [اختيارات بديعي.]     Early medical work on diseases, pharmacology and materia medica.
    • Contributor: Anṣārī Shīrāzī, ʻalī Ibn Ḥusayn
    • Date: 1855

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