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1 copy of a Swahili version in verse of a story from the Arabian Nights
Title: Kissa cha Baba Abdala Kipofu
An utenzi that is the translation into Swahili of a story contained in the famous book ‘A thousand and one nights’. The title of the story is ‘The Story of Baba Abdalla the Blind’
Incipit: Ndugu nipani nyaraka, Na kalamu kwa haraka, Na wino usio shaka, Nipate kuandikiya
Language(s): Swahili
References
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 19 f.
Hand(s)
Clear Latin hand
Record Sources
"Swahili Manuscripts Collections".
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
JISC
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