[IO Islamic 1239] جامع الحكايات

Jâmi’-alḥikâyât.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 798 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 1239 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Another, incomplete, copy of the same story, contained in No. 20 of the preceding collection, the story of the daughter of the Faghfûr or emperor of China, who puts certain critical questions to all her lovers, and kills them if they are not able to give the correct reply. A number of leaves are missing in the beginning, but the main portion of the story is complete. At the end a number of moral inferences are drawn, for instance: 1.بر پادشاهی اعتمادى نيست . 2.پادشاهی و گدائى وراحت و رنج بركس جاويد نماند. 3.از فرزند قابل آسايش دنيا و اخرت است. 4.در كارها فكر و تأمّل خوبست, etc.

No date. Comp. Behrnauer, ‘Der junge Perser und die gricchische Prinzessin‘ in ‘Johannes-Album,’ Chemnitz, 1857, Prosaische Beiträge, pp. 55-70, where a much older version of the Turandot story is given, taken, as is stated there, from ‘Aufî’s original جامع الحكايات (or rather جوامع الحكايات). No date.

No. 1239, ff. 20, ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9 in. by 53/8 in.