[IO Islamic 153] بهار دانش منظوم

• Bahâr-i-dânish-i-manżûm.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 818 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 153 here with notations and hyperlinks].

818

Bahâr-i-dânish-i-manżûm ( بهار دانش منظوم).

A poetical paraphrase of the Bahâr-i-dânish in mathnawî baits, incomplete at the end, by Ḥasan ‘Alî with the takhalluṣ ‘Izzat, who lived in the reign of Tipû Sulṭân (reigned in Maisûr or Mysore, A.H. 1197-1213=A.D. 1783-1799), to whom this work is dedicated.

Beginning: بنام آنكه جان را داد در خاك

زانجم ساخت روشن سقف افلاك

No. 153, ff. 247, ll. 10-19 ; Shikasta, the first leaves supplied by a later hand, as it seems, ll. 9-12 ; size, 11^1/2 in. by 7^7/8 in.