[IO Islamic 1627] Persian Story

<ul> <li><strong>Persian Story.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 853 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1627 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>853</p> <p>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.</p> <p>No. 1627, ff. 106^b-112^b, ll. 13-14; careless Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the last leaf written by another hand in Naskh&icirc;, ll. 23; size, 9 in. by 4^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>