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Manuscript/Mixed Material Nuskhah-i Badāyiʻ al-inshā = Buddayeh al Insha نسخة بدايع الانشا = Buddayeh al Insha

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Title

  • Nuskhah-i Badāyiʻ al-inshā = Buddayeh al Insha

Other Title

  • نسخة بدايع الانشا = Buddayeh al Insha

Summary

  • Treatise on Persian letter writing and prose composition.

Names

  • [Yūsufī, Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Maḥallī, -1559]
  • Clarke, Adam, approximately 1762-1832, former owner

Created / Published

  • [early 19th century]

Headings

  • -  Letter writing, Persian--Early works to 1800
  • -  Persian letters--Early works to 1800
  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  India

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Persian.
  • -  Title from fol. 1a.
  • -  Name of scribe not indicated.
  • -  Written in India.
  • -  Paper; cream-color, unpolished Indian laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; black ink with Arabic passages translated into Persian in red ink; catchwords.
  • -  Author's name does not appear in the manuscript.
  • -  Former owner's name on end sheet.
  • -  Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 16.5 x 9.5 cm.
  • -  Pages 1-220.
  • -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M101.
  • -  Contemporary plain brown leather binding.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

  • 1, 220, 2 pages (15 lines), paper : bound ; 20.5 x 14.3 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PK6349 .Y87 1800z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016496953

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:

Yūsufī, Yūsuf Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf Al-Maḥallī, -1559, and Adam Clarke. Nuskhah-i Badāyiʻ al-inshā = Buddayeh al Insha. [Early 19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496953/.

APA citation style:

Yūsufī, Y. I. M. I. Y. A. & Clarke, A. Nuskhah-i Badāyiʻ al-inshā = Buddayeh al Insha. [Early 19th Century] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496953/.

MLA citation style:

Yūsufī, Yūsuf Ibn Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf Al-Maḥallī, -1559, and Adam Clarke. Nuskhah-i Badāyiʻ al-inshā = Buddayeh al Insha. [Early 19th Century] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2016496953/>.