[IO Islamic 1239] جامع الحكايات

<ul> <li><strong>J&acirc;mi&rsquo;-alḥik&acirc;y&acirc;t.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 798&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 1239 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>798</p> <p>Another, incomplete, copy of the same story, contained in No. 20 of the preceding collection, the story of the daughter of the Faghf&ucirc;r 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.</p> <p>No date. Comp. Behrnauer, &lsquo;Der junge Perser und die gricchische Prinzessin&lsquo; in &lsquo;Johannes-Album,&rsquo; Chemnitz, 1857, Prosaische Beitr&auml;ge, pp. 55-70, where a much older version of the Turandot story is given, taken, as is stated there, from &lsquo;Auf&icirc;&rsquo;s original جامع الحكايات (or rather جوامع الحكايات). No date.</p> <p>No. 1239, ff. 20, ll. 16; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>