[IO Islamic 606] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

• Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 783 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 606 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.

A much fuller and greatly enlarged redaction of the romance of Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î, more than twice as large as the preceding copies and as all the other editions of this work, hitherto known. It consists of two different portions, the first of which is styled هفت سَيْر حاتم طى (see the same additional title in Rieu, loc. cit.), and begins exactly in the same manner as the preceding copies, besides being nearly the same length as that, viz.: سپاس بيقياس مر پروردگاری را جلّ شانه و هزاران نعت بر آن محمّد مصطفى الخ.

The second part is styled هفت انصاف حاتم طى , and begins on fol. 170^a: راوئ ذو فنون بمضمون موزون معروف بمنى بعبارت صاف هفت انصاف حاتم طى را بيان ميكند كه چون حاتم از آن سفرها كه بسبب حسن بانو الخ.

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No. 606, ff. 416, ll. 17; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size 10^5/8 in. by 6^5/8 in.