[IO Islamic 1627] Persian Story

• Persian Story.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 853 in the India Office collections.
• [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1627 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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The story of the king and the seven viziers, who, under penalty of death, are ordered to state the hidden meaning of certain trees with miraculous fruit, beginning: حكايت آورده اند كه در شهرى درختان را ميوۀ بر آمده آنرا از جامه كرپاس پوشيده و از درون آن روشنائى ميدرخشيد روزى (پادشاه or سلطان add ) زير درختان آمده احوال آن پرسيد وزرا گفتند كه معلوم نيست الخ.

No. 1627, ff. 106^b-112^b, ll. 13-14; careless Nasta’lîḳ; the last leaf written by another hand in Naskhî, ll. 23; size, 9 in. by 4^7/8 in.