[IO Islamic 212] شرح بوستان

<ul> <li><strong>Sharḥ-i-B&ucirc;st&acirc;n.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1152 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 212 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1152</p> <p>Sharḥ-i-B&ucirc;st&acirc;n (شرح بوستان).</p> <p>A very short commentary on Sa&rsquo;d&icirc;&rsquo;s B&ucirc;st&acirc;n, in which only the difficult verses and phrases are explained, by an anonymous author, who, however, judging from the immediately following commentary on the Gulist&acirc;n in this same MS. (see No. 1180 in this Cat.), seems identical with Muḥammad &lsquo;Abd-alras&ucirc;l bin Shih&acirc;b-ald&icirc;n, who wrote both his small explanatory works on B&ucirc;st&acirc;n and Gulist&acirc;n in the same year, viz. A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1662, 1663), see Rieu ii. p. 604 ; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 552, etc.</p> <p>The present copy begins, without any introduction, at once with the initial bait of the poem:بنام جهاندار جان آفرين ........ جهان بمعنئ روزگار مصحّح است از خدمت امير شهاب الدين حكيم الخ.</p> <p>B&acirc;b I begins on fol. 231^a.</p> <p>No date.</p> <p>No. 212, ff. 225-254, ll. 20; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 9&frac12; in. by 6 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>