[IO Islamic 2072] بهار دانش

Bahâr-i-dânish.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 817 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 2072 here with notations and hyperlinks].

817

A very incomplete copy of the same.

Beginning as usual; the work itself opens on fol. 7b.

A lacuna after fol. 7b, corresponding to No. 3217 (808 in this Cat.), fol. 4b, l. 3 ab infra, to fol. 9a, l. 7. A second, much larger, lacuna after fol. 210b, corresponding to No. 3217, fol. 171a, l. 5, to fol. 212b, l. 8.

This copy is dated the 1st of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1122 (A.D. 1710, April 30). Collated.

No. 2072, ff. 230, the main portion of the MS. in careful Nasta’lîḳ, ll. 17; ff. 1-6 by a more recent hand in careless Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta, ll. 15; ff. 21-26 by a third hand in pure Shikasta, ll. 17-18 ; size, 91/4 in. by 53/8 in.