Poetry and Elegant Prose [IO Islamic 2699]

<ul> <li><strong>Poetry and Elegant Prose.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 2699&nbsp;</strong><strong>in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Loth">&nbsp;<strong>Otto Loth,&nbsp;</strong></a><strong><em><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636">A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office</a></em>, (volume 1), no. 842&nbsp;here with further notations and hyperlinks]</strong>.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://archive.org/details/catalogueofarabi01greauoft/page/242/mode/2up?view=theater"><strong>842</strong></a>.</p> <p>2699. Size 10^1/4in. by 7 in.; foll. 398. Fifteen lines in a page.</p> <p>The first part of the Thousand and One Nights, ending with the 281st night (the Story of Prince Ḳamar al-zam&acirc;n).</p> <p>Beginning الحمد لله الملك الجواد &lsquo; خالق الخلق و العباد&lsquo;.</p> <p>Well written in Nasta&rsquo;liḳ. Rubrics often omitted. Quite modern.</p> <p>[Bibl. Leydeniana.]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>