[IO Islamic 601] Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî

• Tuḥfa-i-Sâmî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 666 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 601 here with notations and hyperlinks].

666

Another copy of the same.

This copy, transcribed by Bâḳî Muḥammad Ḥâfiż Nûr of Andakhud, but likewise not dated, is much shorter than the preceding one, and more like an abridgment of the original work, containing only 474 biographies.

Beginning the same as in the preceding copy.

No. 601, ff. 73, ll. 19; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^1/4 in. by 6^7/8 in.