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Manuscript/Mixed Material[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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Manuscript/Mixed Materialal-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 badʼ al-khalq | 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??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialTuḥfat 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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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb-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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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDurrat 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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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialZubūr 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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Book/Printed MaterialA[stua]tsashunchʻ. Hnotsʻ ew Norotsʻ Ktakaranatsʻ ner parunakōgh sharakargutʻeamb nakhneatsʻn meroy ew chshmartasiratsʻ tʻargmanchʻatsʻ
Atsuatsashunchʻ Hnotsʻ ew Norotsʻ Ktakaranatsʻ ner parunakōgh sharakargutʻeamb nakhneatsʻn meroy ew chshmartasiratsʻ tʻargmanchʻatsʻ The Oskan Bible of 1666 is the first complete printed Bible in Armenian. It takes its name from Oskan Erewants'i (Oskan of Yerevan, 1614-74), an expatriate from Armenia who, with the help of wealthy Armenian patrons, founded an influential and important press in Amsterdam for the purpose of printing books in his native language. The books produced by the press were intended mainly for…- Date: 1666
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Book/Printed Material[Four gospels] In Armenian. Binding (not original): stamped brown goat's leather over boards; two leather clasps with holes by which to hook nails on page one of cover. Illustrations: pen-drawn decorations; initials. Carbon ink. Colors: black, blue, green. Manuscript text. Text in 2 columns: 7.5 cm. x 2.5 cm. "Ard yishetsʻēkʻ zbaremit ewzhezahogi ěz[ ] Melikʻsētʻ ... "--Colophon. "Armenian MSS. 6006"--Cover of box. Also available in…- Contributor: Melikʻsēt
- Date: 1683-01-01
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Armenian Lectionary fragments] Ink: black, blue, red. Manuscript texts. Paper. In Armenian. Near East scanned- Date: 16??
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Book/Printed MaterialAlphabetum ibericum, sive georgianum : cum Oratione dominicali, Salutatione angelica, Symbolo fidei, Præceptis Decalogi, Ecclesiæ Sacramentis, & Operibus miseracordiæ ; latina, & iberica lingua compositis, & charactere georgiano impressis ; accesserunt Litaniæ … Alphabetum ibericum, sive georgianum: cum Oratione (Iberian or Georgian alphabet with prayers) is one of the first two books printed in Georgian using moveable type. In the 1620s, the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, the body of the Roman Catholic Church established in the early 17th century for the purpose of spreading Catholicism in non-Catholic countries, began to train monks going…- Contributor: Catholic Church. Congregatio De Propaganda Fide
- Date: 1629
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