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209 - A devotional compilation,
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A devotional compilation, Tirah, North West India, circa 1800, with date of 1223AH/1808-9, Arabic manuscript on paper, in several hands including one marginal depiction of the Ka’aba, in a 19th-century vernacular Indian binding and textile wrapper Folio 34 x 23.5cm Provenance: According to the note it was brought from Tirah, formerly at the North-West Frontier of British India, in 1897. With note dated 1903 from British oriental scholar Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas (23 August 1838 – 20 May 1913). He was vice president of the Royal Asiatic Society and the first Keeper of the British Museum's new Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts when it was created in 1892. He was knighted in 1903.
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