Qismī az Bayān-i Fārsī

Manuscript.

Persian

Title from pasted label on cover.

Scribe not indicated.

Place of writing unknown.

Paper: lined notebook paper, lines running vertically to the text; black ink.

Text breaks off after the first line of "al-bāb al-awwal min al-wāḥid al-rābiʻ."

Naskh; 17 lines in written area approximately 15.5 x 11.5 cm.

165 pages.

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M5.

Contemporary blue cardboard binding with black leather spine.

With a small manuscript fragment 19 x 12.5 cm, 16 pages (25-28 lines), in very small nastaʻliq script.

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Incipit: بسم الامنع الاقدس

Explicit/Colophon: في ان للنقطة مقامين مقام ينطق عن الله ومقام ينطق عما دون الله ذلك مقام

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01/01/1900

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