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Collection of miscellaneous texts in Persian and Arabic inluding prayers

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Collection of miscellaneous texts in Persian and Arabic inluding prayers

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Collection of texts in Persian and Arabic, mostly unidentified, two works with titles are Bayaẓ-i Adʻiyah in praise of the Mogul hero Muḥammad Bahādūr Sirāj al-Dīn; and the other, al-Majlisī's Ḥulyat al-muttaqīn
Manuscript.
Persian and Arabic.
Title devised by cataloger.
Scribes not identified.
Name of former owner on spine: Nawab M.M. Hosein.
Probably originally written in Iran; binding and end notes from India.
Paper; thin, light beige paper; text surrounded with an outer ruled border of a single blue line and the text area by a border of thin red and blue lines; paper lightly stained in lower corners; about 120-130 pages from the end have insect damage near the gutters in the upper part of the pages.
Nastaʻliq and naskh; (Arabic text in naskh; Persian translation in nastaʻliq; 13 lines.
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M102.
Binding; red leather with single embossed gold flower in center of covers and embossed gold borders; spine is completely detached and is decorated with gold bands and single gold flowers; top of spine has gold lettering "Nawab M.M. Hosein" and at the bottom "Garden reach", inside papers have overall geometric pattern in purple and white.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

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01/01/1856
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washington dc
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Library of Congress
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