Sadykhova A. A Manuscript of “Tales of Some Lovers of the Past” in the Collection of the Oriental Faculty of the St. Petersburg University // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 4. No. 1. March 1998. P. 9—16.
An eighteenth-century manuscript of the “Tales of Some
Lovers of the Past” (No. 734) in the library of the Oriental
Faculty of St. Petersburg University entered the holdings of
the library in the collection of manuscripts belonging to
Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī (1810–1861 ). I. Yu. Krachkovsky’s article
entitled “Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī, professor at the St. Petersburg
University (1810–1861)” contains brief information
about this manuscript. It is also mentioned in V. I. Beliayev
and P. G. Bulgakov’s article “Arabic manuscripts in the
collection of LGU”, where it is termed “little-known”.
Two sheets of paper inserted into the manuscript have survived;
they contain a list, in V. I. Beliayev's hand, of the
stories which make up the manuscript. One can assume that
the scholar attributed a certain significance to this manuscript
and planned to study it further...
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