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Incomplete collection of two Arabic works and two unidentified poems in Persian

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Incomplete collection of two Arabic works and two unidentified poems in Persian

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An incomplete compilation including an Arabic treatise on the sultanate and caliphate based on a hadith of Kaʻb al-Akhbār with an interlinear Persian translation, an Arabic treatise on the legal division of human actions into lawful and unlawful, and two unidentified poems in Persian; the last of the poems is incomplete.
Manuscript.
Arabic and Persian.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Name of scribe not indicated.
Possibly written in India.
Paper: light blue laid paper with both horizontal and vertical chain lines, and perhaps a faintly visible partial watermark; black ink with no rubrication, catchwords on rectos.
Naskh (Arabic sections); Nastaʻliq (Persian sections), 5-9 lines in written area 12.5 x 6 cm.
Fol. 5b-23b (1st work), 24a-28a blank; 28b-40b (2nd work), 41a-45a blank; 45b-48a (3rd work), 49 blank; 50a-58b (4th work, incomplete).
Library of Congress. Arabic manuscript.
Binding is brown cardboard with blue cloth spine.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
Incipit: قال كعب الاخبار رضي الله عنه يقول اللخ تعلى في بعض كتب المنزلة على الانبياء ...

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01/01/1700
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washington dc
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Library of Congress
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