| Title |
Anwar-i-Soheili |
| Accession Number |
C320 |
| Museum Name |
Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata |
| Gallery Name |
NA |
| Object Type |
Manuscript |
| Main Material |
Paper |
| Author |
Mulla Hussain ibn Ali & Waiz-al-Kashifi |
| Scribe |
Muhammad Yusuf and Muhammad Sultan Samarqandi |
| Period / Year of Work |
A.H 924/1521 A.D. |
| Language |
Persian |
| Script |
[] |
| Number of folios |
281 |
| Number of Illustrations |
38 illustrations, 4 seals (illegible),19 lines to a page |
| Brief Description |
Anwar-i-Soheili is the Persian version of Panchatantra and Hitopadesha, being a collection of 100 selective fables originally composed in Sanskrit.
A book on good counsel illustrated with animal fables. |
