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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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    al-Sifr al-thālith min al-Jāmiʻ al-ṣaḥīḥ al-mukhtaṣar min umūr Rasūl Allāh sallá Allāh ʻalayhi wa-sallama wa-sannafahu wa-aqāmahu tālīf al-Imām Abī ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl al-Bukhārī, raḥimahu Allah tatlūhu fī al-sifr al-rābʻ tafsīr ...
    السفر الثالث من الجامع الصحيح المختصر من امور رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وسبفه واقامه تاليف الامام ابي عبد الله محمد بن اسماعيل البخاري رحمه الله تتلوه في السفر الرابع تفسير القرءان | Title in ʻunwan folio 1b: Kitāb badʾ al-khalq
    Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari (810-70) was born in Bukhara, in present-day Uzbekistan, and died in Khartank, near Samarkand. He is considered by Sunni Muslims to be the most authoritative collector of hadiths--reports of statements or deeds attributed to the Prophet Muhammad. This work, completed in 846, is al-Bukhari's best-known collection. It was the first work of its kind exclusively dedicated to hadiths, and is...
    • Contributor: Bukhārī, Muḥammad Ibn Ismāʻīl
    • Date: 16??
    • Resource: - 406 pages

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    Kitāb Kashf al-asrār ʻammā khafīya ʻan al-afkār
    كتاب كشف الاسرار عما خفي عا الافكار / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Treatise on Islamic doctrines and ethics.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-ʻimād Al-Aqfahsī, Aḥmad - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1600
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    Ḥāshiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf ʻalá Sharḥ al-Tajrīd al-Ṭūsī lil-Iṣfahānī al-mashhūr bi-al-Sharḥ al-ʻaqāyid
    حاشية السيد الشريف على شرح التجريد الطوسي للإصفهاني المشهور بالشرح العقايد Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Commentary on the commentary by Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī on the Tajrīd al-ʻaqāʼid by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Jurjānī, ʻalī Ibn Muḥammad
    • Date: 1600
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    Kitāb Itḥāf al-murīd bi-Jawharat al-tawḥīd
    كتاب إتحاف المريد بجوهرة التوحيد / Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Commentary on the author's father's work "Jawharat al-tawḥīd".
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Laqānī, ʻabd Al-Salām Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām
    • Date: 1600
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    Ḥāshiyat al-Khayālī ʻalá Sharḥ al-ʻAqāʼid al-Nasafī
    حاشية الخيالي على شرح العقائد النسفي Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available
    Glosses on al-Taftāzānī's commentary on al-Nasafī's ʻAqāʼid.
    • Contributor: Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress) - Ibn Al-Ḥanbalī, Muḥammad Ibn Ibrāhīm - Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Khayālī, Aḥmad Ibn Mūsá
    • Date: 1600
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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: Zayn Al-ʻābidīn ʻalī Ibn Al-Ḥusayn - ʻalī Ibn Abī Ṭālib
    • Date: 1654

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    ʼPhags pa bskal pa bzaṅ po pa źes bya ba theg pa chen poʼi mdo 17th century manuscript; written on both sides of leaves of composite Tibetan paper completely died blue and subsequently over-painted black and varnished on a central panel, written in gold ink in 7 lines per page with the opening pages containing respectively 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 lines of script in graded sizes. With 22 fully painted miniatures and more than 600 roundels...
    • Date: 1600-01-01
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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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    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: Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ Kambūh - Muqīm, Muḥammad - Muḥammad Amīn Ibn Abī Al-Ḥusayn Qazvīnī
    • Date: 1650

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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: Kirmāni, Naṣr Al-Dīn Ibn Muḥammad - Jamāl Muḥammad Valad-I Muḥammad Ashraf - Nasafī, ʻabd Allāh Ibn Aḥmad
    • Date: 1626

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

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    Supplemental prayers for the High Holy Days Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [תפילות נוספות לימים נוראים] Supplemental prayers, mainly for Rosh ha-Shanah and especially for Kippur (ff. 10r-69r). Includes many piyyutim, none of them recorded in I. Davidson's Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry, inter alia, אשא קולי בקול רינה לזמר לה' אלקי ישראל (f. 2v), אקדמך ה' אלקי בתושבחך (ff. 3r-4r), להתחנן לפניך בקר קדמתי (ff. 6r-v), בשיר...
    • Date: 16??

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    Me'il Tsedakah Owners: Questo Libro e di me Raffael Morello Di Casale (front flyleaf). On the back flyleaf and cover a list of provisions and their prices in Italian, headed: "Lista Del Sig. Leon Della Morello". Deinard 1914. MMW. Wormed and damaged at the beginning. Italian semi-cursive script.. Description based on finding aid [מעיל צדקה] Me'il Tsedakah, supplications for each day of the week compiled by...
    • Date: 16??

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    Responsa Previous signature at LC: Hebr. MS 229. Deinard 1914. MMW. Oriental-Sephardic semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [שאלות ותשובות מהר"י וייל] Responsa by Jacob Weil. Incomplete. Includes only 12-40, 73-75 and 89-108 or parts of them. There are minor variants from the editions. These leaves were separated from LC Hebr. Ms 27 in which they were scrambled. Other leaves from this manuscript exist,...
    • Date: 16??

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    Pirkei Shirah Previous signature at LC: Hebr. MS 102. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid Pirke Shirah with commentary by Hananiah Jaghel of Montelisce and שפתי רננות by his son Gamliel. Copied from the Mantua 1661 edition. The beginning is missing until the middle of chapter four (=f. 137b in the edition) and a leaf or two is missing from the...
    • Date: 16??

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    Ma'amar ha-Nefesh LC Hebr. Mss 75, 81, 85, 113 and 122 are written in different Italian scripts on paper of the same size and with the same watermark. LC Hebr. Ms 81 was copied by the same scribe who copied this manuscript. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [מאמר הנפש] Ma'amar ha-Nefesh from Menahem Azariah Fano's Amarot Tehorot. Divided into seven...
    • Date: 1600

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    Sefer Moshi'a Hosim Sefer Moshi'a Hosim by Abraham Jaghel. Sermons including remedies for the plague incorporating the Pittum ha-Ketoret service by Joseph of Argento. Copied, with the title page, from the Venice 1587 edition. Deinard 1914. MMW. Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid
    • Date: 16??

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    Abridgement of Jacob Zemah's Lehem min ha-Shamayyim Italian semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [קיצור לחם מן השמים] An abridgement and redaction of Jacob Zemah's Lehem min ha-Shamayyim on kabbalistic mystical intentions. Begins: להיות כי לימים שעברו בא לידי ספר לחם מן השמים... ובעיוני בו מצאתי כולו מלא שבושים וטעיות... ויען שנמצא אצלי ספר הכוונות של... האר"י זלה"ה תקנתי אותו וחסרתי וחלפתי ויתרתי.... Missing material from middle of שער השבת....
    • Date: 16??

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    Azharot Oriental semi-cursive script. Description based on finding aid [אזהרות יצחק בן ראובן עם פירוש משה מועטי] Azharot by Isaac b. Reuben al-Bargeloni with the commentary by Moses Mu'ati. Printed several times. Only from the end of the commentary on letter tet of the second alphabet to the middle of the commentary to the letter tzadi near the end of the third and final alphabet....
    • Date: 16??

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    Amarot Tehorot (portions of) Italian semi-cursive scripts. Description based on finding aid Owners: Abraham Jona purchased the first part of the manuscript from Reuben Joseph Mondovi לי למקנה מאת הק' ראובן יוסף מונדווי, אברהם יונה (f. 1r). Mondovi, a resident of Modena, owned several other manuscripts now in different libraries, some of them purchased by him approximately 1762. Another owner, יח"ק (Isaac Hayyim or Israel Hayyim Carpi?) noted...
    • Date: 1600

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