[IO Islamic 2383] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

<strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥâtim Ṭâ’î.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 782 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 2383 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 782 A short fragment of the same. Beginning as in the preceding copies. On fol. 380^a, the first faṣl begins (فصل اوّل در بيان سرگذشت حسن بانو دختر برنغ بازرگان و اخراج كردن از شهر پادشاه خراسان الخ). The last words on fol. 413^b agree practically (of course the exact wording differs, as in all popular romances, considerably in the various copies) with the beginning of fol. 12^a, in the preceding copy. Copied in the beginning of the present century. No. 2383, ff. 371-413, ll. 11; large Nasta’lîḳ: size, 8^1/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.