[IO Islamic 1330] پند خواجه نظام

Pand-i-Khwâjah Niżâm

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1780 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 1330 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1780

Pand-i-Khwâjah Niżâm (پند خواجه نظام).

Another treatise by ‘Abdallâh Anṣârî, usually styled نصحيت , and containing short admonitions and practical advices on ethical matters. Given to the great Wazîr Khwâjah Niżâm-almulk of Ṭûs (see Haft Iḳlîm, No. 690, col. 428 in this Cat.), and beginning: پير هراة قدّس سرّه العزيز در نصيحت فخر الوزرا خواجه نظام الملك طوسى ميفرمايند كه يا نظام هر كه ده خصلت شعار خود الخ .

The same treatise, but with a slightly different beginning, is noticed in G. Flügel iii. pp. 445, 493, and 505 ; the title given to it in the last of the three Vienna copies is پند نامه or نصيحت نامه.

Dated the 11th of Rabi’-alâkhar, A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639, Aug. 11).

No. 1330, ff. 1-9, ll. 6 ; vey large Nasta’lîḳ ; size, 10 in. by 5½ in.