[IO Islamic 2732] عيار دانش

‘Iyâr-i-dânish.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 775 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 2732 here with notations and hyperlinks].

775

A still more defective copy of the same.

This copy opens abruptly, on fol. 1a, with these words: .... گشاده اند نظم درين بستان زبان بايد الخ, corresponding to No. 1692 (768 above), fol. 1a, l. 6.

Bâb I, on fol. 9a; II, on fol. 12a; III, on fol. 44b (in this bâb there are three lacunas, viz. one after fol. 55, corresponding to No. 1692, fol. 38b, l. 6, to fol. 39a, end of l. 11; the second after fol. 56, corresponding to fol. 39b, last line, to fol. 40b, l. 8 in the same copy; the third after fol. 58b, corresponding to fol. 42a, l. 8, to fol. 42b, l. 3 ab infra in the same copy); IV, on fol. 114b; with the heading of bâb V, on fol. 148b: باب پنجم در فوائد يكدل بودن با دوستان (No. 1692, fol. 103b, l. 3), this copy breaks off. A portion of fol. 74 is torn away at the bottom.

No. 2732, ff. 148, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/2 in. by 51/8 in.