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Oriental Manuscripts Bruce Collection

1 copy of Alf laylah wa-laylah

[Two stories from the collection:-] (i) Khabar al-malik Jalʻād min mulūk al-Hind maʻa wazīrihi Shimās al-ḥakīm [ff. 1r-92r]; (ii) Madīnat al-nuḥās [ff. 92v-128r].

Language(s): Arabic

References

GAL II 59, 60

[K 397]

Physical Description

Form: codex

Extent: 128 ff.

History

Origin: c. 1769 [in Abyssinia ]. CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The collections of James Bruce of Kinnaird, d. 1794.

Purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1843.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

Subjects

Tales

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