[IO Islamic 2713] بوستان

<ul> <li><strong>B&ucirc;st&acirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1139 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2713 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1139</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Beginning, the usual one: بنام خداوند جان آفرين الخ , but the various reading of جهاندار for خداوند (as in fact many copies read) has been suggested on the margin. The last bait of Graf&rsquo;s edition is here the last but two; the additional two baits are:</p> <p>هزاران درود و هزاران سلام &ndash; زمان بر محمّد عليه السّلام</p> <p>ترا فتح و دولت هميشه مدام &ndash; بحقّ محمّد عليه السّلام،</p> <p>Copied A.H. 1081 (A.D. 1670, 1671) by &lsquo;Abd-alras&ucirc;l ibn Maul&acirc;n&acirc; &lsquo;Al&icirc;. Collated. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. On the fly-leaf at the back the following note: &lsquo;The Bostan of Sadi; Palgatacherri, Aug., 1805; J. Leyden.&rsquo;</p> <p>No. 2713, ff. 150, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9^5/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>