Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

Add. 311 (University Library, Cambridge University)

Oriental Manuscripts

Contents

Summary of Contents: Collection of short stories with the general title Qiṣṣahhā-yi Fārsī va Hindī قصه های فارسی و هندی
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Part of the Persian version of the Arabian Nights comprising the first 135 nights

Language(s): Persian

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Physical Description

Form: codex
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History

Origin: undated 1229 AH; 1814 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

The manuscript seem to have been presented 0n 13th Dec 1864 by Rev. Professor Mayor to the late Professor Palmer (1840-1882), who donated it to the Library.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. G. Browne: A hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1900 E. G. Browne: A catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1896 abbreviated by the OCIMCO project team.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC


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