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Cover illustration: Kašf wuǧūh al-ġurr li-maʿānī Naẓm al-durr of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Qāšānī, Syria 16th century. This manuscript contains on f. 1a an ownership note of Wetzstein in Arabic script. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK, Orientabteilung, Wetzstein I 38.
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