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Summary of Contents: جوامع الحكايات والواسع الروايات This apparently complete MS. of the Jasamil-Hikayat of "Awfi is designated
as P and numbered 20 in Dr Nizámu'd-Dín's descriptive list (op. cit., p. 121), but
though it contains all the Four Parts into which the work is divided, many anecdotes
are omitted and Chs. V, VI, VII in Part IV are almost entirely wanting. Dr Nizamu'd-
Din, who worked upon this MS. for four years, has numbered the anecdotes
correctly, marked with an asterisk on the margin those which are missing, and
added a Table of Contents in comparison with the preceding MS. (X. 3), the India
Office MS. 595 (L), and the British Museum MS. Add. 16,862 (J). He describes
its textual value as very uncertain. Begins: شکر و سپاس ...ی را که اثر ابتدای صباح وجود تا ابتدای رواح عدم هرچه هست در قبضه تقدیر اوست Ff. 404 of 38 x 24,5 c. and 25 ll. Small legible nasta'liq with rubrications. The
first few pages are damaged. Dated 27 Muharram 1059/11 February, 1649.
Transcribed by 'Abdu'r-Rahim ibn Muhammad Niyásarí (Niyástarí). Bought from
the heirs of the late Sir Albert Houtum-Schindler on Jan. 5, 1917.

Author: ʻAwfī, Muḥammad, fl. 1228 محمد عوفي

Title: Jawāmiʻ al-ḥikāyāt wa-lawāmiʻ al-riwāyāt

Title: جوامع الحكايات ولوامع الروايات

Language(s): Arabic

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 404

Dimensions: 38 × 24.5 cm.

Layout

25 lines

Hand(s)

Small legible nasta'liq with rubrications.

History

Origin: 1059 AH; 1649 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bought from the heirs of the late Sir Albert Houtum-Schindler on Jan. 5, 1917.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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