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- 1835. (Creation)
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A manuscript volume in Arabic and Persian which, according to an accompanying note, was picked up after the Battle of Inkerman in 1854. It opens in Arabic ('This is the book of the Jewels of Isālām') and then follow the invocation of the name of Allah and the laudatory reference to Mohammed. The text follows in Persian and consists of a dictionary of Islamic names, personal and geographical. The end is again in Arabic, and the colophon is dated 1213 of the Hejra, i.e. 1835.
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Language of material
- Arabic
- Persian
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Arabic, Persian.
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The description is also available in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Part XIX, 268.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 10908A.
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
November 2008.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume III (Aberystwyth, 1961);