[IO Islamic 2055] عيار دانش

• ‘Iyâr-i-dânish.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 771 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 2055 here with notations and hyperlinks].

771

The same.

Beginning: سپاس از ازل و ابد خداوندى را كه كران تا كران از آشكارا و نهان پرتوه (پرتو read) آفتاب عالمتاب الخ.

Index, on fol. 9^b.

Contents (agreeing upon the whole with those in the three preceding copies): Bâb I, on fol. 10^a; II, on fol. 14^a; III, on fol. 50^a; IV, on fol. 133^b ; V, on fol. 172^a (در فوائد يكدل بودن با دوستان); VI, on fol. 203^a; VII, on fol. 247^a; VIII, on fol. 266^a (headed here less correctly در زيان و شتاب زدگى); IX, on fol. 273^a (here از دشمن instead of از چنگ دشمن); X, on fol. 285^b (در پرهيز نمودن از كينه داران و تكيه ناكردن بر چاپلوسئ ايشان); XI, on fol. 299^b (in the text the heading of bâb X is repeated here by mistake; in the index the wording is correct, only صفت instead of صفتى); XII, on fol. 325^a (در بيان پاداشتن الخ); XIII, on fol. 335^a (در حرز افزون طلبيدن الخ); XIV, on fol. 344^a (در بزرگئ دانش و گرانبارى و آهستگى در كارها خصوصاً پادشاهان را) ; XV, on fol. 365^b ; XVI, on fol. 376^a.

No date. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2055, ff. 394, ll. 13; large Nasta’lîḳ; the older portion of the copy comprises ff. 39-378; ff. 1-38 and 379-394 are of a more recent date; size, 9 in. by 5^1/2 in.