[IO Islamic 536] قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال

<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almul&ucirc;k wa Bad&icirc;&rsquo;-aljam&acirc;l.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 788&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 536 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>788</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Saif-almul&ucirc;k wa Bad&icirc;&rsquo;-aljam&acirc;l (قصّۀ سیف الملوک و بديع الجمال).</p> <p>The love-story of prince Saif-almul&ucirc;k and princess Bad&icirc;&rsquo;-aljam&acirc;l, a tale from the Arabian nights in Persian translation or adaptation; the redaction of the story in the present copy is the common or second one, agreeing with No. 461 in the Bodleian Cat., Rieu ii. p. 764 (Egerton 1018), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 996 (No. 1044), and beginning: سپاس و ستايش بيقياس مر صانعى را كه بقلم صنع خود اين همه صورتهاى عجب ..... امّا بعد چنين گويد ( گويندBodl.copy) راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و حكيمان و بزرگان روزگار كه در ايّام محمود غازى الخ.</p> <p>Comp. also G. Fl&uuml;gel ii. p. 27. An Eastern Turkish version in mathnaw&icirc;-baits, composed A.H. 960 in Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-alawwal (A.D. 1553, Febr.-March) is preserved in No. 2824, ff. 1-85, of this collection.</p> <p>Dated the 19th of Ramaḍ&acirc;n in the seventeenth year of Muḥammadsh&acirc;h&rsquo;s reign (A.H. 1148=A.D. 1736, Febr.2).</p> <p>No. 536, ff. 67, ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; very curious and comical illustrations on ff. 4^a, 5^a, 14^a, 14^b, 17^a, 17^b,21^a, 23^b, 25^b, 26^a, 31^b, 34^a, 34^b, 36^b, 38^a, 39^b, 41^b, 51^a, 52^a, 54^b, 55^a (the full page), 59^b, 60^a (again the full page), 63^b, 64^a (the full page), 66^b and 67^a (<em>one</em> picture, filling the two pages); size, 8 in. by 4^1/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>