[IO Islamic 2054] بهار دانش

Bahâr-i-dânish.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 807 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 2054 here with notations and hyperlinks].

807

Another copy of the same.

This copy of the Bahâr-i-dânish, the oldest of the dated ones among the complete copies, is very rudely written, greatly injured, worm-eaten and dirty. It is collated. Beginning the same as in the preceding copy.

The work itself opens on fol. 5a. Dated the 27th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1145 (A.D. 1732, Dec. 15). College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2054, ff. 310, ll. 17; Shikasta, many pages written in diagonal lines; size, 93/4 in. by 51/4 in.