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Summary of Contents: دانش نامه جهان Dánish-náma-i-Jahán, a Persian manual of Natural Science by Ghiyáthu'd-Din
'Ali ibn 'Ali Amirán al-Husayní al-Isfahání, a writer who seems to have flourished
in the 7th or 8th century of the hijra (13th or 14th of the Christian era). See
Rieu's Persian Catalogue, pp. 439-440, and Ethé's Bodleian Catalogue, Nos. 1456,
2173 and 2174 (cols. 891-892 and 1186-1187). I bought the MS. for 7/6 on
March 30, 1899, at a shop in Farringdon Street. The book comprises ten sections (fast), twenty subsections (as), four "results"
(natija), and a conclusion (dtime), vis. Fasl I (f. 6º). The Universal Intelligence and the Universal Soul. Fasl II (f. 6). The Heavens. Fasl III (f. 7). Fasl IV (f. 9). The revolutions and cycles of the Heavens. The Elements. Fasl V (f. 9). The division of the Elements. Fasl VI (f. 10). Conditions inseparable from the Elements. Fasl VII (f. 12). Classes of the Elements. Fast VIII (f. 12). Shape of the Heavens and the Elements and how the earth subsists. Fast IX (14). The meaning and true nature of a body.
Fast X (f. 16). Division of simple and compound bodies.
Asl I (f. 19"). Metamorphosis of bodies. Asl II (f. 24). Asl III (f. 27). Asl IV (f. 30). Asl V (f. 31). Asl VI (f. 33). Asl VII (f. 34). Asl VIII (35) Asl IX (f. 36"). How vapour and smoke are produced.
How wind is produced.
How clouds are produced.
How rain is produced.
How snow is produced.
How hail is produced. How mist and fog are produced.
How thunder is produced.
How lightning is produced.
How thunderbolts are produced.
How shooting stars are produced.
Indications of redness in the sky.
Mock suns.
Meteors.
Rainbows. Asl X (f. 37).
Asl XI (f. 39).
Asl XII ( 40).
Asl XIII (f. 41).
Asl XIV (f. 42).
Asl XV (f. 44).
Asl XVI (f. 45).
Asl XVII (f. 51). Asl XVIII (f. 56). Asl XIX (f. 57). Asl XX (f. 59). Natija I (f. 61). Natija II (f. 85"). Natija III (f. 95"). Cause of the halo. Earthquakes and their causation. On the issue from the earth of voices, winds and fire.
On springs, wells and underground water-courses.
Minerals, metals and mines. Plants and their virtues. Animals. Natija IV (f. 100'). Man. Khatima (f. 182) Human Anatomy, comprising a tabira and 3a walas.

Author: Ḥusaynī Iṣfahānī, ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī Amīrān, active 15th century Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn Amīrān al-Husaynī al-Isfahānī, fl. 1466-1467 غياث الدين علي بن اميران الحسيني الاسفهاني حسيني اصفهاني، علي بن علي اميران

Title: Dānish'nāmah-ʼi jāhan

Title: دانش نامۀ جهان

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 235

Dimensions: 17.9 × 9.6 cm.

Layout

12 lines

Hand(s)

clear ta'liq with rubrications

History

Origin: undated

Provenance and Acquisition

I bought the MS. for 7/6 on March 30, 1899, at a shop in Farringdon Street.

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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JISC

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