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hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Minor rubbing. VG. Textual illustrations Persian Philology McGill University Libraries Montreal 2005 orig.boards 23x15cm, xx, 207 pp., Series: Fontanus Monograph Series, 17. "McGill University's impressive library collection contains approximately 334 Persian manuscripts acquired over a period of eighty years by esteemed scholars such as Casey A. Wood, Max Meyerhof, and Wladimir Ivanow. The manuscripts collected by Ivanow, a Russian scholar, come from Lucknow and Sandila in northeast India, where most of them had been copied, making them of great interest to paleographers and codicologists. Adam Gaceks' catalogue describes these manuscripts, which embrace all aspects of Islamic literature, including Qur'anic exegesis, tradition, jurisprudence, philosophy, theology, mysticism, history, belles lettres, and science. Works in medicine and the natural sciences, particularly hunting, falconry,and farriery, are well represented. The Persian manuscripts are preserved in four McGill University… Read More