Delhi Persian 512 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
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1 copy of Baḥr al-javāhir by Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Ṭabīb al-Hiravī
Dictionary of Persian and Arabic terms, especially medical and technical, with definitions in Arabic and occasionally in Persian, compiled by the polymath physician and literary scholar Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Qurashī al-Hiravī al-Maḥallī (d. 950/1544), who worked at the court of the Timurid Emperor Humāyūn.
Not dated at end.
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Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876
1876
Government of India
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