[IO Islamic 2055] عيار دانش

‘Iyâr-i-dânish.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 771 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 2055 here with notations and hyperlinks].

771

The same.

Beginning: سپاس از ازل و ابد خداوندى را كه كران تا كران از آشكارا و نهان پرتوه (پرتو read) آفتاب عالمتاب الخ.

Index, on fol. 9b.

Contents (agreeing upon the whole with those in the three preceding copies): Bâb I, on fol. 10a; II, on fol. 14a; III, on fol. 50a; IV, on fol. 133b ; V, on fol. 172a (در فوائد يكدل بودن با دوستان); VI, on fol. 203a; VII, on fol. 247a; VIII, on fol. 266a (headed here less correctly در زيان و شتاب زدگى); IX, on fol. 273a (here از دشمن instead of از چنگ دشمن); X, on fol. 285b (در پرهيز نمودن از كينه داران و تكيه ناكردن بر چاپلوسئ ايشان); XI, on fol. 299b (in the text the heading of bâb X is repeated here by mistake; in the index the wording is correct, only صفت instead of صفتى); XII, on fol. 325a (در بيان پاداشتن الخ); XIII, on fol. 335a (در حرز افزون طلبيدن الخ); XIV, on fol. 344a (در بزرگئ دانش و گرانبارى و آهستگى در كارها خصوصاً پادشاهان را) ; XV, on fol. 365b ; XVI, on fol. 376a.

No date. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2055, ff. 394, ll. 13; large Nasta’lîḳ; the older portion of the copy comprises ff. 39-378; ff. 1-38 and 379-394 are of a more recent date; size, 9 in. by 51/2 in.