[IO Islamic 780] قصّۀ بهرامگور و بانوى حسن

<strong>Ḳiṣṣ-i-Bahrâmgûr u Bânui-Ḥasan.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 849 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 780 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 849 Ḳiṣṣ-i-Bahrâmgûr u Bânui-Ḥasan ( قصّۀ بهرامگور و بانوى حسن). A Persian romance, the love-story of Bahrâmgûr and the fair princess, the daughter of the king of the Perîs. Beginning: راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطيان شكر شكن شيرين گفتار و مهندسان سخن و گوشه نشينان كهن چنين روايت كرده اند که در شهر فارس پادشاهى بود بعدل و داد تمام خلق و بغايت خوش روى الخ. A shorter version of the same story is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 989, No. 12, in the first line. Dated the 8th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, April 29). No. 780, ff. 50, ll. 17; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^3/4 in. by 5^3/8 in.