IO Islamic 3774 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Collection of moralistic stories in prose and verse modelled on Saʿdī's Gulistān

Seals of ownership (ff. 10r, 21v, 112r), mentioning the names Aḥmad ʿAlī ghulām-i Ḥaydar, Valī Muḥammad known as Shāhīn Khān

Later replacement folios (ff. 1-5)

Title page added later (see IO Islamic 3776 and IO Islamic 3786a-b)

IOL stamp: 19 Mar. 1909

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Form: codex

Extent: 112 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 180 × 106 mm.

Dimensions (written):

Origin: 17th-18th centuries CE ; India or Afghanistan

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