[IO Islamic 1840] كليد بستان

Kalîd-i-Bustân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1151 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 1840 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Kalîd-i-Bustân (كليد بستان ).

A short glossary to Sa’dî’s Bûstân, arranged alphabetically, except the five first words; beginning: حلب نام مقام ماخوليا خلل دماغ غور مقام ..... افواه دهنها استعانت يارى خواستن أگنده پر شده الخ

The whole letter ١ from افواه to the beginning of the letter ب quite agrees with the short glossary to Ḥâfiż’ dîwân, contained on ff. 38-48 of this same MS., see the second كليد خواجۀ حافظ further down in this Cat. under ‘Ḥâfiż;’ but all the rest from ب down to the end of ى is different from that. It concludes on fol. 97b, and is dated the 12th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, in the first year of Jahândârshâh’s reign (=A.H. 1124, A.D. 1712, Dec. 11). As this little glossary follows in the same MS. immediately upon the مفتاح گلستان, by Uwais bin ‘Alâ-aldîn Âdam (see Nos. 1176-1179 in this Cat.), it may be due to the same author, who flourished about A.H. 900 (A.D. 1494, 1495).

This كليد is followed, on ff. 98-106b, by another short glossary, likewise to the Bûstân, arranged, without alphabetical order, according to the single chapters of Sa’di’s poem; but there are quoted only eight chapters; the last two seem to be missing. Beginning:پوزش عذر (عزيز.MS) و معذرت الخ at the end a fragment of a تعبير نامه.

Copied A.H. 1148 (A.D. 1735, 1736).

No. 1840, ff. 91-107, ll. 13; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/8 in. by 6 in.