An Account of the Mu'nisul-Ahrdr: A Rare Persiasn Ms. Belonging to Mr. H. Kevorkian

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With a magnanimity which is singularly rare these days Mr. H. Kevorkian, a curio-seller of New York, lent me a year ago his exceedingly precious and valuable MS. of an anthology of Persian poetry, giving me full permission to utlize or publish it, and I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Kevorkian for his liberality. The MS. is entitled Mu'nisu'l-Ahrr fi Daq'iqi'l-Ash'r and contains copious extracts covering all branches of Persian poetry, from the elegy, the ode, and the double-rhyme poem to the quatrain and the unit, quoted from two hundred Persian poets whose names are found on the first folios of the MS. and are the reproduced lower down.