[IO Islamic 530] شرح بستان

<ul> <li><strong>Sharḥ-i-Bust&acirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1150 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 530 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1150</p> <p>Sharḥ-i-Bust&acirc;n (شرح بستان).</p> <p>&lsquo;Abd-alw&acirc;si&rsquo; H&acirc;nsawi&rsquo;s commentary on the B&ucirc;st&acirc;n, beginning, on fol. 41^b: ربّنا لا تواخذنا إن نسينا او اخطانا و صلّ على نبيّك و رسولك محمّد سيّدنا و مولانا و على آله و اصحابه الخ ميگويد معترف بعجز و نادانى در فهم الفاظ و درك معانى عبدالواسع هانسوى كه الخ ; comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 552. &lsquo;Abd-alw&acirc;si&rsquo; of H&acirc;ns&icirc; (see above, col. 403) is also the author of the غرائب اللغات, an alphabetical glossary of Hind&icirc; words with Persian explanation, improved and re-edited by Sir&acirc;j-ald&icirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc; &Acirc;rz&ucirc;, and of a Persian Grammar, printed 1851 in Cawnpore, comp. Rieu iii. pp. 1030^a and 1096^b.</p> <p>The text of the B&ucirc;st&acirc;n (introduction) begins, on fol. 42^b: بنام جهاندار جان آفرين ; Book I, on fol. 61^a; II, on fol. 106^b; III, on fol. 130^a; IV, on fol. 149^a; V, on fol. 171^a; VI, on fol. 182^a; VII, on fol. 188^b; VIII, on fol. 206^b; IX, on fol. 216^a; X, on fol. 218^a. Fol. 50^b is left blank, but there is no lacuna.</p> <p>Not all verses, but only the difficult ones, are explained by the commentator.</p> <p>This copy was finished after a careful collation by Muḥammad Naṣ&icirc;r, the son of Sayyid Lutf-all&acirc;h, who was also an inhabitant of H&acirc;ns&icirc;, the 8th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1140 (A.D. 1727, Sept. 25). On fol. 220 a fragment in Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc;: خيال بزبان هندى.</p> <p>No. 530, ff. 41-220, ll. 11; large and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the first two pages sprinkled with gold; size, 8&frac12; in. by 4&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>