[IO Islamic 2774] قصّۀ كامروپ

• Ḳiṣṣa-i-Kâmrûp.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 821 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 2774 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ḳiṣṣa-i-Kâmrûp (قصّۀ كامروپ).

The same prose version of the story of Kâmrûp and Kâmlatâ as in Rieu ii. p. 763 sq., where it is ascribed to the poet Muḥammad Kâżim, that is no doubt Mîr Muḥammad Kâżim Ḥusainî, with the takhalluṣ Karîm, who was in the service of ‘Abdallâh Ḳuṭbshâh (reigned in Ḥaidarâbâd A.H. 1035-1083 =A.D. 1626-1672, see No. 465 in this Cat.); see Rieu ii. p. 683, and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 456. Another copy of the same story described in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 995.

It has ben translated into English by W. Franklin, under the title of ‘The loves of Camarûpa and Camalatâ,’ London, 1793. A poetical version of the same story is Muḥammad Murâd’s دستور همّت, composed A.H. 1096 (A.D. 1685), see Rieu ii. p. 697.

Beginning: قصّه پردازان غرائب آثار و داستان سرايان سوانح روزگار الخ.

No date. Twelfth century of the Hijrah. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2774, ff. 103, ll. 14; Shikasta; size, 8^1/2 in. by 5^1/2 in.