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          <p>"A Persian tract on the observances of the Zena'nah pp.1 to 10" and also entitled "A Persian text on the observances of women. Translated by E. Rehatsek". This is an handwritten manuscript of 10 pages + title page, undated but written on the reverse of sheets of paper taken from a Bachelor of Arts Examination Paper in Persian for 1878. Rehatsek has translated chapters on religious ablution and bathing; occasions on which it is necessary to omit prayers; fasting; marriage; the wedding night; childbirth; bathing; music and its seasons; intercourse of a wife with her husband and his mother and sister; some cooked dishes; amulets against the evil eye; who may see the child and who not; invocations and imprecations; guests; adoption of a sister. He has annotated his own translation with supplementary notes in the margins.</p>
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