Alf laylah wa-laylah. -- [17--?].

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Title
Alf laylah wa-laylah. -- [17--?].
Alternative Title
Arabian nights.
Kitāb Alf laylah wa-laylah
ألف ليلة وليلة. -- [17--؟].
كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة
Published / Created
[17--?]
Abstract

Several lacunae in the text.

Volume I only, stops in the middle of the story of Qamar al-Zamān and Budūr.

Description
Fair modern (18th century) nastaʻlīq, leaves 1-5 supplied in a later hand.
In manuscript on leaf 1 recto: "Bought by me at Mocha 1805. M. Thoms[on]."
Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Ḥukiya, wa-Allāh aʻlam wa-aʻraf [wa-]akram, fīmā maḍá wa-taqaddam min asālīf al-umam, annahu [kāna] malikayn min mulūk al-ʻAjam, min Banī Sāsān, wa-kānū khawayn [akhawayn] shaqīqayn min umm wa-ab ..."
Islamic binding, in brown.
Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.
البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... حكي، والله أعلم وأعرف [و]أكرم، فيما مضى وتقدّم من أساليف الأمم، أنّه [كان] ملكين من ملوك العجم، من بني ساسان، وكانوا خوين [أخوين] شقيقين من أم وأب ..."
Extent
221 leaves (in 1 volume) ; 20.5 x 15 cm.
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
Arabic

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Arabic MSS 272

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
text
Genre
Manuscripts, Arabic--18th century
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Topic)
Arabic manuscripts.
Arabic prose literature--Early works to 1800.

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Citation
Alf laylah wa-laylah. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Brockelmann, II, 58; S II, p. 59

Identifiers

Orbis Record
3763331
Object ID (OID)
17427367

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