What is "marzubannama"

The Marzubannama (, Book of the Margrave) by Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini is a collection of 10th-century fables in Persian, translated into Arabic around 1220.

The text survives in an illustrated manuscript dating to 1299 ( Ilkhanid period, MS 216 in the Archaeology Museum Library, Istanbul). It contains the earliest extant representation of Muhammad in a Persian manuscript, predating the cycle of MS Arab 161 by a decade.