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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb-i akhlāq-i muḥsinī كتاب اخلاق محسني

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Title

  • Kitāb-i akhlāq-i muḥsinī

Other Title

  • كتاب اخلاق محسني

Summary

  • Treatis on Islamic ethics and religious life.

Names

  • Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ, -1504 or 1505, author

Created / Published

  • [18th century?]

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Iran
  • -  India

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Persian.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Unexplained date at end of text: 843 / 1439 or 1440.
  • -  Scribe not identified.
  • -  Written in either India or Iran.
  • -  Paper; cream-color laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; thin ruled border of 2 red lines on leaves 1-3 and 151; thin ruled border of three lines in blue-red-red leaves 4-150; black ink with rubrication; catchwords on rectos; this is very likely two separate works or two different manuscripts of the same work combined.
  • -  Fol. 1-3 Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 16 x 8 cm; fol. 4-150b Naskh; 15 lines in written area 16 x 8 cm; fol 151 reverts to Nastaʻliq.
  • -  Fol. 1a-151b.
  • -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M45.
  • -  Disbound.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

  • 151 leaves (15 lines), paper : disbound ; 20.5 x 13 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BJ1291 .K3 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016397149

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Kāshifī, Ḥusayn VāʻIẓ, -1504 Or 1505, Author. Kitāb-I Akhlāq-I Muḥsinī. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016397149/.

APA citation style:

Kāshifī, Ḥ. V. Kitāb-I Akhlāq-I Muḥsinī. [18th Century?] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016397149/.

MLA citation style:

Kāshifī, Ḥusayn VāʻIẓ, -1504 Or 1505, Author. Kitāb-I Akhlāq-I Muḥsinī. [18th Century?] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016397149/>.