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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-taqwīm bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah كتاب في معرفة التقويم باللغة الفارسية / Kitāb-i maʻrifat-i taqvīm

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Title

  • Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-taqwīm bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah

Other Title

  • كتاب في معرفة التقويم باللغة الفارسية
  • Kitāb-i maʻrifat-i taqvīm

Summary

  • Short treatise in Persian on the Islamic calendar.

Names

  • Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd al-Imām, former owner
  • Mansuri Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Ṣafar 1278 [August 1861]

Headings

  • -  Islamic calendar
  • -  Manuscripts, Arabic--Washington (D.C.)

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Persian.
  • -  Title from cover.
  • -  Written by Aḥmad ibn Asad Allāh al-Sarīsī(?).
  • -  Purchase of Mahmud al-Mansuri collection, 1945.
  • -  Place of writing not determined.
  • -  Paper; commercial laid paper with horizontal laid lines and no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords.
  • -  Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 15 x 10.5 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-6a.
  • -  "85. IX 837 = 5.787."
  • -  Library of Congress. Mansuri Collection, 5-787.
  • -  Binding; black quarter leather with black grain sides; former owner's name in lower right corner of cover.
  • -  Incipit: البسملة وبه نستعين. الحمد لله العلي والصلوة علىم النبي الامي. اما بعد اين مختصرى است در معرفت تقويم خالى ...
  • -  Explicit/Colophon: قد تم كتاب معرفة التقويم بعون الملك الباقي بيد احقر العباد الله المحتاج الى رحمة الله احمد بن اسد الله السريسي في شهر صفر سنة 1278.

Medium

  • 6 leaves (15 lines), paper : bound ; 22 x 17.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • CE59 .K58 1861

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496531

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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IIIF Presentation Manifest

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Arabic Language Rare Materials Collection

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Chicago citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-taqwīm bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah. [Ṣafar 61, 1278] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496531/.

APA citation style:

Manṣūrī, M. A. & Mansuri Collection. (1278) Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-taqwīm bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah. [Ṣafar 61] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496531/.

MLA citation style:

Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām, Former Owner, and Mansuri Collection. Kitāb fī maʻrifat al-taqwīm bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah. [Ṣafar 61, 1278] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496531/>.