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1 copy of a Swahili version in verse of a story from the Arabian Nights

Author: Nassir, Ahmad Bhalo, Ahmad Nassir Juma, 1937-
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

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Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 19 f.

Hand(s)

Clear Latin hand

Record Sources

"Swahili Manuscripts Collections".

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