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Malfūẓāt - Persian manuscript - Abū Ṭālib al Ḥusaynī

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Malfūẓāt - Persian manuscript - Abū Ṭālib al Ḥusaynī

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Memoirs of Timur originally written in Chagatay, now lost, translated into Persian by the Mughal scholar Abū Ṭālib al-Ḥusaynī.
Manuscript.
Persian.
Title from folio 2a
No statement of responsibility.
Possibly copied in India.
Paper; cream color laid paper without visible chain-lines or water-marks; elaborate ʻunwān, otherwise undecorated; text in black ink enclosed in border of three thin lines blue-red-red ink; some rubrication; catchwords on rectos.
Nastaʻlīq; 17 lines in written area 19.5 x 9.5 cm.
Folios 1-b-655b.
Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, 260/66.
Contemporary marbled leather.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

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01/01/1851
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