[IO Islamic 3209] عيار دانش

‘Iyâr-i-dânish.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 774 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 3209 here with notations and hyperlinks].

774

A defective copy of the same.

This copy, which is not dated, opens abruptly thus: ...دانايان پيشين است چه از كوه ها دانايان خواسته اند الخ, corresponding to No. 1692 (768 above), fol. 2a, lin. Penult. Index, on ff. 7b-8a.

Bâb I, on fol. 8b; II, on fol. 12b; III, on fol. 53b; IV, on fol. 147a; V, on fol. 190b (در فوائد يكدلى با دوستان); VI, on fol. 225a; VII, on fol. 275b; VIII (beginning wanting, as there are seven leaves entirely torn away between ff. 295 and 296, comprising fol. 159a, l. 7 to fol. 162a, l. 11 in No. 1692; half of fol. 294 is likewise torn away); IX, on fol. 300a; X, on fol. 314b, first line; XI, on fol. 330b, first line (heading omitted); XII, on fol. 358b; XIII, on fol. 370a; XIV, on fol. 380a (در بزرگئ دانش الخ) ; XV, on fol. 404a; XVI, on fol. 416b ( در اكتفا ننمودن برگردش روزگار); Khâtimah, on fol. 432b.

No. 3209, ff. 438, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; pencil notes in English throughout; size, 83/4 in. by 53/4 in.