[IO Islamic 2472] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 780 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2472 here with notations and hyperlinks].

780

Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î (قصّۀ حاتم طائى).

The Persian romance of Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î, the model of liberality and generosity in the East, beginning, exactly as No. 451 in the Bodleian Cat.: سپاس بي قياس مر پروردگاریرا جلّ شانه و هزاران نعت بر آن سرور كائنات حضرت ...... راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار چنين روایت میکنند در بيان تولّد حاتم بن طى بن كهلان الخ.

Comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 449, 2-451; Rieu ii. p. 764; J. Aumer, p. 55; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 991; A. F. Mehren, p. 33. This romance has been translated into English by Duncan Forbes, London, 1830; the Calcutta edition by J. Atkinson, 1818, contains only an abridgment of it. Other editions, Constantinople, 1840, and Bombay. A different version of the same story, made by Ḥusain al-Wâ’iż alkâshifî, A.H. 891 (A.D. 1486), is described in Bodleian Cat., No. 452, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 992. This copy is severely damaged by worms in many places, and not dated.

No. 2472, ff. 160, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 6 in.