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Summary of Contents: الطايف الظرايف A collection of anecdotes in Persian. There appears to be no indication of
authorship,
Begins :
اول ثنای دوست فصیحان ادا کنند آری طعام را به نمك آشنا کنند حمد بیحد و شکر بی عدد حضرت فرد و صمد و خداوند احد The work ends on f. 188a and is followed by various poems, some by Yaghmá,
rubá'ís, etc. Ff. 215 of 32,3 x 18,7 c. and 15 ll. in the middle of the page and 26 in margins.
Dated (on f. 188) 1253/1837-8. Large and rather illegible ta'liq.

1. ff. 1a-188a

Author: anonymous

Title: Laṭāʼif al-ẓarāʼif

Title: لطائف الظرائف

Language(s): Persian

2. ff. 188b-215

Title: Collection of Persian poems

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 215

Dimensions: 32.3 × 18.7 cm.

Layout

15 lines in the middle of the page and 26 in margins

Hand(s)

Large and rather illegible ta'liq.

History

Origin: 1253 AH; 1837-8 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

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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