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Posted:
07 Feb 2018

 This Persian manuscript is a compendium of eleven works on morality, written by a number of Persian authors. It was in the Old Library by ca. 1720, when an inscription was made on the front fly-leaf by William Warren, Fellow and Librarian of Trinity Hall.

Contents: Selection of verses by Nizāmī and Hātifī, collected to illustrate a number of ethical principles; Pand’nāmah; Qiṣṣah-ʾi mūsh va gurbah (also known as the Fable of the mouse and the cat); Two tracts on ethics; Nān va halvā; Religious poem; Religious qasīdah; Bāb davyam dar bayān-i fadīlat-i muhtar-i Ibrāhīm; Tract on courtly etiquette; Short tract on companionship.

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Original, red leather painted black with red leather doublures over paste boards in an Islamic-style binding incorporating an envelope flap on the front cover
central panels on front, back and envelope flap, decorated with multicoloured flowers and birds outlined in gold, border of stylised multicoloured flowers outlined in gold