Descrizione

Original bdg. HC. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). Text in Persian; bilingual title in English and Persian with English preface and introduction. [17], [32], 316 p. "The present book contains a detailed catalogue of Persian manuscripts preserved at the Library of Congress. The library possesses 146 Persian manuscripts of which 11 manuscripts are preserved in collections. The catalogue lists 165 manuscripts in total, including the works preserved in the said collections. Apart from several bilingual works, there are three individual Arabic manuscripts in the collections two of which are very short. The oldest dated Persian manuscriptin the library is a copy of Jalal al-Dîn Rumî's Mathnawî Ma'nawî. The copy which is preserved under no. MS 106 is dated 845/1441, and other additions even date back to the 14th / 20th century.".

Lingue: Persian