Description of Columbia University X892.8 P43: Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām. Columbia University These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library X892.8 P43: Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library X892.8 P43: Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Manuscript codex. Title from introduction (f. 1v). New York, NY. 10027 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library X892.8 P43 15373152 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1241726028 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_P43.html https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/15373152 Copy of a text on inshāʼ (letter writing). Persian with some Arabic quotations Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām. منشاء انشاء الكلام Niẓāmī Bākharzī, ʻAbd al-Vāsiʻ, -1503 or 1504 نظامى باخرزى، عبد الواسع، 1v Manshāʼ inshāʼ al-kalām.

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 i, 75 foliated leaves : 205 x 165 (137 x 90) mm, bound to 210 x 165 mm Chiefly written in 8 long lines. Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed. Illuminated headpice in blue and green (f. 1v) with foliate marginal fill in green (f. 1v-2r); rubrications in red; textblock border-ruled in blue, black, gold; page-opening frame-ruled in red. Notations in ink Illuminated headpiece Marginal fill Marginal fill Notations in ink

Plain reddish leather over pasteboard with brown paper doublure.

The copy is undated; possibly 19th century.

18--? Persian prose literature--Early works to 1800 Persian letters--Early works to 1800 Letter writing, Persian--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York codices (bound manuscripts) manuscripts (documents) letters (correspondence)