Collection of stories in Hindustani.

Title:

Collection of stories in Hindustani.

Creator:

Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

A.H. 1251 (1835)

Description:

Incomplete collection of stories, the main one about a Judge being tempted by a beautiful woman upon the order of the King, Muʻalī; 14 vibrantly colored illustrations.

Language:

Indic languages

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Manuscripts, Indic
Manuscripts, Oriental
Manuscripts, 19th century
Codices (bound manuscripts)
Manuscripts (documents)
Miniatures (paintings)
Poems
Indic literature

Geographic region:

India

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Āghā Faṣāḥat ʻAlī and purchased from "a person whose father was the grand vizier Nawwāb Naṣīr al-Dawlah Bahādur, for the father of the Mahārājah Rājah" [incomplete] (Simsar, 175) (f. 1r).Sold at Sotheby's Feb. 1925, lot 165 (catalog entry pasted to front flyleaf recto and note in pencil).Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Extent:

9 long lines; border-ruled.

Publisher:

Free Library of Philadelphia

Rights:

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Identifier:

Lewis O 99

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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