<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Alf laylah wa-laylah. -- [17--?].</dc:title><dc:date>[17--?]</dc:date><dc:description>Several lacunae in the text.</dc:description><dc:description>Volume I only, stops in the middle of the story of Qamar al-Zamān and Budūr.</dc:description><dc:description>Fair modern (18th century) nastaʻlīq, leaves 1-5 supplied in a later hand.</dc:description><dc:description>In manuscript on leaf 1 recto: "Bought by me at Mocha 1805. M. Thoms[on]."</dc:description><dc:description>Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm ... Ḥukiya, wa-Allāh aʻlam wa-aʻraf [wa-]akram, fīmā maḍá wa-taqaddam min asālīf al-umam, annahu [kāna] malikayn min mulūk al-ʻAjam, min Banī Sāsān, wa-kānū khawayn [akhawayn] shaqīqayn min umm wa-ab ..."</dc:description><dc:description>Islamic binding, in brown.</dc:description><dc:description>Purchased from the Wellcome-Kraus collection in 1949.</dc:description><dc:description>البداية: "بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ... حكي، والله أعلم وأعرف [و]أكرم، فيما مضى وتقدّم من أساليف الأمم، أنّه [كان] ملكين من ملوك العجم، من بني ساسان، وكانوا خوين [أخوين] شقيقين من أم وأب ..."</dc:description><dc:format>text</dc:format></oai_dc:dc>