IO Islamic 3776 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Untitled treatise on cosmography, hence the titles ascribed to it on the title page and flyleaf (Risālah dar hayʾat and Haft iqlīm)

Author not mentioned, however patron is named in text as Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Khvājah Ḥabīb

Annotations

Dated colophon: completed by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, on 20 Jum. II 1197/23 May 1783, in dār al-salṭanat Kābul

Owner's seal: ʿAbd al-Laṭīf (n.d.)

IOL stamp: 19 Mar. 1909

Language(s): Persian

Form: codex

Extent: 73 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 204 × 131 mm.

Dimensions (written):

Origin: 20 Jum. II 1197 AH; 23 May 1783 CE ; Kabul, Afghanistan

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