[IO Islamic 268] بوستان

<ul> <li><strong>B&ucirc;st&acirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1148 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 268 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1148</p> <p>Extracts from the B&ucirc;st&acirc;n.</p> <p>Select verses from Sa&rsquo;d&icirc;&rsquo;s B&ucirc;st&acirc;n, beginning with the usual initial bait: بنام خداوند جان آفرين الخ.</p> <p>Similar extracts were made by Sh&acirc;h Ḳ&acirc;sim-i-Anw&acirc;r (died A.H. 837=A.D. 1433, 1434), see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 743 and 744. As title to theses extracts is given, on fol. 1^a: جزوى از بوستان سعدى.</p> <p>Copied in Shaww&acirc;l, A.H. 959 (A.D. 1552, Sept.-October).</p> <p>No. 268, ff. 24, 2 coll., each ll. 11; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; beautiful illuminations on the first two pages; size 9^1/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>