IO Islamic 3877 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Minhaj al-'arifin
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1 copy of Minhāj al-ʿārifīn
Brief treatise on moralistic sayings and advice, attributed in the colophon to Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī
Illuminated throughout, ornamental borders, ruled margins, and gold flecking or zar afshānī on alternating coloured papers; large calligraphic nastaʿlīq; later inferior ʿunvān (f. 1v)
Colophon date, 847 (1443-4), may be spurious. More likely to date to the seventeenth century
Scribe: Muḥammad Qāsim
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