[IO Islamic 2497] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال

• Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almulûk wa Badî’-aljamâl.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 789 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 2497 here with notations and hyperlinks].

789

Another copy of the same.

The same redaction of the story, as in the preceding copy.

Beginning: آغاز داستان قصّۀ سيف الملك (! sic) و بديع الجمال ، سپاس و ستايش بيقياس مر صانعى را الخ.

No date; the original part of the MS., in bold Naskhî, is considerably old and much damaged.

Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2497, ff. 1-67, ll. 14-15; Naskhî, except ff. 1-5, 11, and 51-67, which have been added by a much more modern hand, on white paper in Nasta’lîḳ, ll. 10-11; size, 8^1/4 in. by 5 in.