Delhi Persian 484 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Letters of Muhmud Gavan
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1 copy of Manāẓir al-inshā’ by Maḥmūd Gāwān̲, 1411?-1481
Treatise on the art of formal and refined epistolary composition by the great Bahmanid minister, Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad Gīlānī (d. 886/1481)
The work consists of a muqaddimah, seven faṣl on figures of speech, followed by several maqāmah divided into five manāẓir, concluding with a khātimah on the rules of Arabic and Persian spelling
Not dated; circa eighteenth century
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