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1 copy of Dānish nāmah-'i jahān by Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī Amīrān al-Ḥusaynī al-Iṣfahānī

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Author: Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn ʿAlī Amīrān al-Ḥusaynī al-Iṣfahānī غياث الدّين على ابن على اميران الحسينى الاصفهانى
Title: Dānish nāmah-'i jahān
Title: دانش نامهٴ جهان

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.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 116 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 227 × 157 mm.

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History

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

Provenance and Acquisition

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

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