Delhi Persian 800 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Language(s): Persian and Arabic

Encyclopaedia of sciences, entitled Dānish nāmah-'i jahān, written by Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī Amīrān al-Ḥusaynī al-Iṣfahānī (d. 606/1209-10).

The treatise is divided into ten sections termed faṣl, with further subdivisions, and concluding with a khātimah.

Spaces allotted for diagrams have been left blank throughout.

Dated colophon (f. 116v): completed at Patna, Tuesday (?), 4 Rabīʿ al-Avval 1025/22 March 1616.

Neat scribal nastaʿlīq occasionally tending to shikastah.

Form: codex

Extent: 116 ff.

Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 157 mm.

Origin: 4_Rabi-I_1025 AH; 22 March 1616 CE Patnah ; India, Bihar, Patna

Purchased by the Government of India at sale organised by Delhi Prize Agents, 1859; administrative deposit India Office Library, 1876

1876

Government of India

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