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Sharḥ-i Jām-i jahān numā

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Sharḥ-i Jām-i jahān numā

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Book of historical and other anecdotes, beginning with anecdotes about nature.
Manuscript.
Persian.
Title from colophon.
Written by Sayyid Raḥim ʻAlī and Shaykh Walī Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr.
Date from colophon: 4 Shaʻbān of the first year of Shāh ʻĀlam son of Shāh ʻĀlamgīr (2 April 1759)
Written in India.
Paper; medium cream color paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; extensive worm damage throughout; catchwords.
Nastaʻliq; 17 lines in written area 17.5 x 9 cm.
Fol. 1b-40a.
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M29.
Disbound.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

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