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Summary of Contents: 4 works by 2 authors on the subjects of Persian language, Arabic language, Islamic chronology, Astronomy, and
Title: Niṣāb al-ṣibyān, risālah dar tavārīkh va ghayrah
Title: نصاب الصبيان, رساله در تواريخ و غيره
1. ff. 1b-54a

with running commentary in prose

Author: Farāhī, Abū Naṣr Muḥammad Badr al-Dīn فراهى، ابو نصر
Title: Niṣāb al-ṣibyān
Title: نصاب الصبيان

Language(s): Arabic, Persian

References

no. 1184
no. CLI
2. ff. 54b-67b
Author: anonymous
Title: Rifsālah fī al-tavārīkh
Title: رسالة في التواريخ
Title: Treatise on chronology, astronomy, divination, etc.

Language(s): Persian

References

no. 457
no. CLI
3. ff. 77b-89a
Author: anonymous
Title: untitled
Title: List of synonyms

Language(s): Persian

References

no. CLI

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Form: codex
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History

Origin: undated 980 AH; Gregorian CE 1575-6 undated

Provenance and Acquisition

Donated by G. Lewis (d. 1729) in 1727.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900 E. G. Browne: A catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1896 abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.

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