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Or 16783

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032-004343537
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Or 16783
Title:
Two works on cosmology
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
84 ff. paginated
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1974
End Date:
1975
Date Range:
1974-1975
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
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Names:
Pīr Naẓar valad-i Pīr Muḥammad
ʿAbd al-Ṣamad
Subjects:
Cosmology--Early works to 1800
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 16783

Two works on cosmology

Contents

Summary of Contents: Two works on cosmology. Amateurish quasi-naskhī. 12 lines. Paginated: [1], 114 and [1], 49 pages. 84 folios. 21 x 15 cm. Plastic binding, imitation red and black half leather. Purchased from Mr. N.A. Majnoon, 8 January 2010.
1. ff. 2v-58v

A brief treatise on cosmology, comprising 36 sections called ṣaḥīfa. Apparently unpublished.

Dated 7.12.1352/27 February 1974 on 2r and 58v. Copied by ʿAbd al-Ṣamad (colophon, 56r).

Language(s): Persian
Title: Kitāb-i ṣaḥīfah
2. ff. 59r-83v
Title: Zubdat al-maʿānī

Another brief treatise, on aspects of cosmology and spiritual life, titled Zabīdat al-maʿāʾinī for Zubdat al-maʿānī. Apparently unpublished.

Copied in Kabul and dated 25.1.1354/14 April 1975, by Pīr Naẓar valad-i Pīr Muḥammad.

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Extent: 84 ff. paginated
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 150 mm.
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Hand(s)

History

Origin: 1974-02-27-1975-04-14 7.12.1352-25.1.1354 (27 February 1974 - 14 April 1975) AH Kabul ; Afghanistan

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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