IO Islamic 4624 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

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Summary of Contents: 1 copy of Tuḥfat al-ʻālam by Jazāʼirī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Abī Ṭālib, 1758 or 9-1805 or 6

Author: Jazāʼirī, ʻAbd al-Laṭīf ibn Abī Ṭālib, 1758 or 9-1805 or 6 ʻAbd al-Laṭīf b. Abī Ṭālib Shūshtarī , d. 1220/1805 or 1221/1806 عبد اللطيف بن ابن ابى طالب جزائرى جزائرى، عبد اللطيف بن ابن ابى طالب

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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Good modern Persian naskh

Copyist: Muḥammad al-Mūsavī, محمد المسوی

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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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