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Treatise on Persian composition

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1 copy of Mufīd by Shāh Muḥammad Zāhidī ibn Masīḥ al-Zamān Hānavī

Author: Shāh Muḥammad Zāhidī ibn Masīḥ al-Zamān Hānavī محمّد زاهد
Title: Mufīd
Title: مفيد

Beginner's guide to Persian literary composition by Shāh Muḥammad Zāhidī ibn Masīḥ al-Zamān Hānavī

The work consists of five chapters on synonyms, grammar, common phrases, and sample letters and documents as models

Defective at end

Not dated; circa nineteenth century

Language(s): Persian & Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 61 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 222 × 143 mm.
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History

Origin: 19th century CE ; India

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/26_f038r

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