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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.
- 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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