[IO Islamic 1550] عيار دانش

• ‘Iyâr-i-dânish.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 777 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 1550 here with notations and hyperlinks].

777

Another disorderly copy of the same.

This most peculiar copy agrees in the preface and the first bâbs, although they are without headings, entirely with the preceding ones (index on fol. 9^a, first bâb on fol. 10^a), but further on a great disorder begins, and the copy differs altogether from the usual ones; for instance, there suddenly occurs, on fol. 52^b, another first bâb:باب اوّل در اجتناب نمودن از قول ساعى و نمّام ; on fol. 102^b, a third bâb (comp. bâb V in the usual copies): باب سيم در موافقت دوستان و فوائد معاضدت ايشان ; on fol. 220^b, a fourth bâb: باب چهارم در ملاحظه كردن احوال دشمنان و ايمن نا بودن از مكر و حيلۀ ایشان (comp. bâb VI in the usual copies). Then follows, on fol. 280^b, a tenth bâb: باب دهم در بيان خرابئ اعمال بطريق مكافات ; an eleventh bâb, on fol. 290^a: باب يازدهم در مضرّت افزون طلبيدن و از كار خود باز ماندن (comp. bâb XIII in the usual copies); a twelfth bâb, on fol. 303^a: باب دوازدهم درفضيلت حلم الخ ; a thirteenth bâb, on fol. 340^b: باب سيزدهم اجتناب كردن ملوك از قول غدر و خيانت (comp. bâb XV in the usual copies); a fourteenth bâb, on fol. 362^b: باب چهاردهم در عدم انقلاب زمان. This chapter is the last in the copy, which was presented by J. Wombwell, Esq., the 10th of April, 1804.

No. 1550, ff. 381, ll. 15; written by different hands very unequally and incorrectly in Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 9^3/8 in. by 6 in.