[IO Islamic 3506] عيار دانش
<ul> <li><strong>‘Iyâr-i-dânish.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 767 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3506 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>767</p> <p>‘Iyâr-i-dânish (عيار دانش).</p> <p>A later modernized Persian version of Kalîlah and Dimnah, in which the flowery style of the Anwâr-i-Suhailî has been toned down to a more sober and plain language, and the two introductory chapters, omitted by Ḥusain Wâ’iż, have been restored, on the basis of the older version of Naṣr-allâh, by Abû-alfaḍl bin Mubârak, the great prime-minister of the emperor Akbar and author of the Akbarnâma (see Nos. 235-270 in this Cat.). He completed this work, which was written at the emperor’s request, the 15th of Sha’bân, A.H. 996 (A.D. 1588, July 10=19 Tîrmâh-i-ilâhî in the year 33=22 Tîrmâh-i-jalâlî in the year 51=14 Âdharmâh-i-ḳadimî in the year 967 or, according to other copies, 957 of the Yazdajird era=17 Mâh-i-Aspâr in the Hindû year 1645=Mâh-i-rûmî in the year 1899 of the Iskandarî era); comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 438-440 ; Rieu ii. p. 756<sup>b</sup>; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., Nos. 438-440; Rieu ii. p. 756<sup>b</sup>; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 974 sq.; J. Aumer, p. 47; G. Flügel iii. p. 286; Notices et Extraits, x. p. 197 sq. (where extracts in text and translation are given by De Sacy). The Hindûstânî translation of this version is the خرد افروز . The ‘Iyâr-i-dânish contains sixteen chapters and a khâtimah.</p> <p>Beginning: سپاس ازل و ابد خداوندى را كه كران تا كران از آشكار و پنهان پرتو آفتاب عالمتاب جمال اوست الخ.</p> <p>All the headings are unfortunately omitted in this copy, which is the oldest among the dated ones of the India Office Library, viz. completed the 9th of Rabî’-alawwal, A.H. 1090 (the twenty-second year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign)=A.D. 1679, April 20. The right order of ff. 37-44 is: 37, 39-43, 38, 44.</p> <p>No. 3506, olim 8. J. 2, ff. 271, ll. 16-19; large, unequal Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
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