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p. 17: ‘One of the greatest libraries on earth’

Harvard University, Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library [Widener], Cambridge MA.

https:// library.harvard.edu/libraries/widener

Ireland, Corydon, ‘100 years of Widener’, Harvard Gazette, 22 May 2015:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/05/100-years-of-widener/.

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p. 25-26: A Wonderful Life Book, originally titled The Greatest Gift… ‘Wonderful Life’, highlighting the wonderful effect on life of every single element and event in it through the story of someone given a chance to relive life without himself in it; and the ‘Greatest Gift’, through the story itself coming to life ‘all at once’… – a most unusual occurrence’

Basinger, Jeanine, in Collaboration with the Trustees of the Frank Capra Archives, The It’s A

Wonderful Life Book (New York, 1986), p. 94: ‘The Greatest Gift’.

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p.28-29

without that or a date next to Kamal’s name passing through future copyists of his ‘autograph’ manuscript, what would later claim him as the author of that Dialogue rested on one small detail: his mention of a single scholar laying buried in Baghdad as one of the prides of that city, a figure whose death date was late enough for the modern cataloguer to rule out the authorship of an earlier Kamal of Isfahan.

p. 29, and n. 52: Kamāl Ismāʿīl-I Isfahānī, Browne,LiteraryHistory,Vol.2, pp.540–1:‘Khallāqal-Maʿānī’,andquotes; Grant, Ethel Watts Mumford, The Hundred Songs of Kamal Ad-Din Isfahan (New York, 1904), p. 14:

‘Last night for one that died a thousand wept

At dawn not one to weep a thousand slain.

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p. 38-39: ‘the closing lines ‘ended’ in mixed Arabic and Persian, starting with the day, Friday the 22nd, time, before morning prayer, and month, the sixth lunar Hijri month, he did not take the same care with his own name, place, and dates… But somehow neither the year of transcription nor that of the original composition, typically from centuries before, were given. There were only clues if one looked closely.

Kamāl-i Is.fahānī, Munāzịrāt-i Baghdād va Isf̣ahān, colophon fol. 197a, copyist; ‘. . . Ibn[?] Shaykh Jamāl . . . Sākin-i Qunūj’