Qiṣṣat al-Hindabād al-Ḥammāl maʻa Sindabād al-Baḥrī : manuscript
قصة الهندباد الحمّال مع سندباد البحري : مخطوطة

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11612860

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Title
Qiṣṣat al-Hindabād al-Ḥammāl maʻa Sindabād al-Baḥrī : manuscript
قصة الهندباد الحمّال مع سندباد البحري : مخطوطة
Alternative Title
Qiṣṣat Sindabād
قصة سندباد
Contributor
Sindbad, the Sailor (Legendary character)
Published / Created
18th century.
Publication Place
Place not identified
Abstract

"Qiṣṣat al-Hindabād al-Ḥammāl maʻa Sindabād al-Baḥrī" (Story of Hindabād the Porter with Sindabā the Sailor), a folktale from "Alf laylah wa-laylah" (Arabian nights). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century

Description
In Arabic.
Title from incipit (folio 1b)
Romanization supplied by cataloger.
Incipit: "Fa-hādhihi Qiṣṣat al-Hindabād al-Ḥammāl maʻa Sindabād al-Baḥrī. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn ʻalá al-qawm al-kāfirīn. Wa-baʻd, Qad kāna bi-Baghdād fī ʻahd al-Khalīfah Hārūn al-Rashīd, rajul yuqāl la-hu al-Hindabād al-Ḥammāl, wa-annahu fī baʻḍ al-ayyām ḥāmil ḥimlan thaqīlan, wa-arāda bi-hi makān baʻīd, fa-adrakahu al-taʻab, wa-ḥamiya ʻalayhi al-ḥarr, wa-sāla ʻaraqahu, wa-qad ijtāz bi-zuqāq qad raqqa rasmuhu wa-ṭāba nasīmuhu, wa-arḍuhu marshūshah bi-al-māward, bi-rāʼiḥat al-ʻūd wa-al-nadd ..."
Secundo folio: ḥimlahu ʻan ʻunuqihi wa-qad ghamiya ʻalayhi.
15.5 x 21.5 cm; written surface: 11 x 18.5 cm; 10-18 lines per page.
Binding: Unbound.
In good large naskh script, in black ink, on thick white paper; some leaves replaced; catchwords.
On folio 1a: Remnant of an unidentified previous manuscript and colophon, as follows: "... wāḥidat khiṭāb lahum [... ...], ilá an atāhum hādim al-ladhdhāt, wa-mufarriq al-jamāʻāt. Wa-hādhā mā intahá ilaynā min [khabarihim (?)] bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, wa-naʻūdhu billāh min al-ziyādah wa-al-nuqṣān. Wa-al-ḥamdu lillāh Rabb al-ʻĀlamīn. ʻAlá yad aḍʻaf al-ʻibād wa-aḥwajihim ilá Rabbihi al-Karīm, al-Sayyid Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-wālidayhi, wa-liman qaraʼa la-hu al-Fātiḥah. Āmīn Yā Rabba al-ʻĀlamīn."
Text ends with: "... wa-istaqāma al-Sindabād al-Baḥrī fī ḥaẓẓ wa-surūr, wa-ghibṭah wa-ḥubūr ilā an atāhu [hādim] al-ladhdhāt, wa-mufarriq al-jamāʻāt, wa-mukharrib [al-quṣūr] wa-al-dūr, wa-muʻammir al-qubūr."
Colophon: "Wa-hādhā [mā intahá] ilaynā min Qiṣṣat Sindabād [...] bi-al-tamām wa-al-kamāl, ʻalá [yad] nāsikhihā li-nafsihi [... ... ...]."
Translation of the colophon: "This is [what has reached] us of the Story of Sindabād [...] completely and thoroughly, by the [hand] of its copyist, for himself [... ... ...]."
Provenance
Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund, 2005.
Extent
1 volume (46 leaves) ; 22 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Arabic

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Hartford Seminary Arabic MSS 1020

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Arabic 18th century
Arabic manuscripts
Resource Type
text
Subject (Name)
Sindbad, the Sailor (Legendary character)
Subject (Topic)
Folk literature, Arabic
Tales
Subjects
Sindbad, the Sailor (Legendary character)
Arabian nights
Folk literature, Arabic > Early works to 1800
Tales > Early works to 1800
18th century
Arabic manuscripts

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Citation
Qiṣṣat al-Hindabād al-Ḥammāl maʻa Sindabād al-Baḥrī. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Catalog Record
16152235
Object ID (OID)
11612860

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