'Ibretnümānāme

34 unnumbered pages ; 21 x 15 cm Manuscript Title from the first page, undated 19 lines per page, laid European paper (watermark: 1. crown-star-crescent; trefoil BG) Elegant Naskh/ icāzet hands, catchwords, rubricated, some marginal glosses Anonymous collection of edifying stories, undated Main text followed by: 1. Simurğ-i 'anḳā ḥikāyesi (ff. 47b-49a), 2. two passages from Dürr-i meknūn possibly by Aḥmed Bīcān Yazıcıoğlı (15th century) (ff. 49a-50a) (TH, IV, 333), 3. Gazel-i Sultan Murād (f. 50b), 4. Münācāt-i Șeyḫ Sa'dī, with two seals depicting a lion with a halo (f. 51b) This is composition non.3 from a manuscript with 3 compositions in 50 folios Holding in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: Three titles bound together subsequent to production: Ḳanunname (ff.1a-19b). [between 1700 and 1799]. -- Risāle-i vaẓīfe-ḫārān merātib-i bendegān-i Āl-i 'Os̮mān. (ff. 20a-30a). [between 1700 and 1799]. -- 'Ibretnümānāme, (ff.30b-47a). [between 1700 and 1799] No binding, clamshell box with light cream linen overboard, stab sewn