IO Islamic 4814 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)
India Office Library
Treatise on horses, illustrated
Contents
Untitled and anonymously written treatises on horses, in two sections, illustrated in a naive style of painting
The first section (ff. 1r-47r) begins in the thirteenth faṣl of a Persian translation of a Sanskrit or Hindi treatise focusing on the location and significance of blemishes, incomplete and defective
The second section (ff. 47r-51v) describes itself as another selection from Śālihotra's Aśvāyurveda-śāśtra (dīgar intikhāb-i Shālutar)
Illustrations (ff. 1r-29r, 34r-v, 36v, 39v-45r)
Unrelated paintings and drawings at end by te same artist's hand, showing Hyderabadi and Maratha martial and courtly figures riding and hunting, without indications of landscape (ff. 53r-58v)
IOL stamp dated 1/7/86
Not dated
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