[IO Islamic 2472] قصّۀ حاتم طائى

<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥ&acirc;tim Ṭ&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 780&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2472 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>780</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Ḥ&acirc;tim Ṭ&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc; (قصّۀ حاتم طائى).</p> <p>The Persian romance of Ḥ&acirc;tim Ṭ&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;, 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.</p> <p>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-W&acirc;&rsquo;iż alk&acirc;shif&icirc;, 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.</p> <p>No. 2472, ff. 160, ll. 13; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^3/4 in. by 6 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>