[IO Islamic 154] بوستان

<strong>Bûstân.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1140 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 154 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1140 The same. Another excellent copy. Written A.H. 1082 (A.D. 1671, 1672) by Mużaffar Ḥusain alḥusainî; the poem begins on fol. 2^b. Instead of the usual <em>ten</em> bâbs this copy contains <em>eleven</em>, the ninth bâb having been split into two, the second headed on fol. 169^b: در موعظه و تنبيه. No. 154, ff. 179. 2 coll., each ll. 12; very large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; the margin sprinkled with various colours: two large pictures on ff. 1^b and 2^a; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 2^b; size, 12^3/8 in. by 7^1/8 in.