[IO Islamic 2462] عجيب القصص

• Ajib-alḳiṣaṣ.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 847 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 2462 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Ajib-alḳiṣaṣ(عجيب القصص).

A fairy tale, relating the adventures of an Indian prince who is designated in many different ways (once, for instance, يوسف جمال), and his love affairs with the princess Badî’-aljamâl, entirely different from the قصّۀ سیف الملوك و بديع الجمال (see Nos. 788-792 above).

Beginning: سرسبزئ بوستان سخن بآييارى (بآبيارئ) ستايش چمن آرائى است كه گلشن عشق الخ.

The title is distinctly given on fol. 7^b, l. 10. The story is dedicated to the emperor Shâh ‘Âlam (who reigned A.H. 1173-1221=A.D. 1759-1806), see fol. 3^b, l. 1: شاه عالم پناه دولت و دين. The author’s name does not appear anywhere.

Copied at Lucknow during the wazîrship of Nawwâb Âṣaf-aldaulah Bahâdur, and finished the 25th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1209 (A.D. 1795, Jan. 17). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2462, ff. 152, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ, rather difficult to read through the absence of many diacritical points; size, 9^5/8 in. by 6^1/8 in.