IO Islamic 4624 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Contents
Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Tuḥfat al-ʻālam by Jazāʼirī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Abī Ṭālib, 1758 or 9-1805 or 6
Title: Tuḥfat al-ʻālam
Title: تحفة العالم
A good copy of the well-known travels of ʻAbd al-Laṭīf b. Abī Ṭālib Shūshtarī , d. 1220/1805 or 1221/1806
The text was lithographed at Bombay in 1847
Language(s): Persian
References
For a more detailed description see Arberry 1939, page 389.
Physical Description
Form: codex
Extent: 215 ff
Dimensions (leaf): 8.5 × 5.8 in.
Dimensions (written): 5.9 × 6.3 in.
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History
Origin: 1258 AH
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on A. J. Arberry: Hand-List of Islamic Manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936–8. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (New Series) (1939), 71: pp 353-396
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