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Customs and manners of the women of Persia and their domestic superstitions / translated from the original Persian manuscript by James Atkinson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kuls̲ūm, Nahʹnah.
Contributor:
Atkinson, James, 1780-1852.
Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Persian
Subjects (All):
Women--Iran.
Women.
Iran.
Penn Provenance:
Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
Physical Description:
xviii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 93 pages : frontispiece ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
London : Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland : Sold by J. Murray, MDCCCXXXII [1832]
Notes:
Authorship attributed to Jamāl al-Din Muhammad ibn Hsayn Khvānsārī by Kh. Mushār: cf. his Mua̓llifin-i kutub-i chāpi-i Fārsī va ʻArabī, v. 2 (1962) column 383.
Trans. from a Persian ms. called Kitábi Kulsúm Naneh, the rules and maxims of 5 matron law-givers of whom Kulsúm Naneh was the principal woman judge.
Local Notes:
Lea Library copy has the bookplate and autograph, dated 1884, of Henry Charles Lea.
Lea Library copy bound with: Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī. Fetoua relatif à la condition des Zimmis. Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, MDCCCLII [1852]
OCLC:
2011642

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