[IO Islamic 944] تحفة الحكايات

<ul> <li><strong>Tuḥfat-alḥik&acirc;y&acirc;t.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 827&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 944 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>827</p> <p>Tuḥfat-alḥik&acirc;y&acirc;t (تحفة الحكايات).</p> <p>A short collection of stories, containing seven tales, and therefore also styled هفتگانه, by Brahman Ḥiṣ&acirc;r&icirc;, beginning: درين ايّام بحسب آبخورد الخ.</p> <p>Dated the 29th of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah in the sixth year of the reign of the emperor Bah&acirc;durshah (Ḳuṭb-ald&icirc;n Muḥammad Mu&rsquo;ażżamsh&acirc;h &lsquo;&Acirc;lam Bah&acirc;dur)=A.H. 1123 (A.D. 1712, Febr. 7), at Sh&acirc;hjah&acirc;n&acirc;b&acirc;d.</p> <p>No. 944, ff. 37, ll. 17-22; Shikasta; worm-eaten; size, 8^3/4 in. by 5 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>