[IO Islamic 1605] فرهنگ گلستان

Farḥang-i-Gulistân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1183 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 1605 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Farḥang-i-Gulistân (فرهنگ گلستان).

Another small glossary of the Gulistân, with the same title, chiefly explaining Arabic words by an interlinear Persian paraphrase; it is divided into two portions, the first of which is arranged alphabetically according to the last letter, viz. لغات مفردات بترتيب حروف, on fol. 1a, beginning with رضا(=خشنودى); the second is headed لغات متفرّقه, on fol. 18b, beginning with اتابت(=توبه).

No compiler’s name appears. Dated, as it seems, the 9th of Ṣafar (? The word is entirely misspelt here), in the first year of Aḥmadshâh’s reign (=A.H. 1162, A.D. 1749, Jan. 29). A seal, however, of the first owner, Ghulâm Muḥyî-aldîn Rafî, bear the earlier date A.H. 1155 (A.D. 1742, 1743), on fol. 18b, another of the same is found at the end of the copy.

No. 1605, ff. 21; careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7¼ in. by 4¾ in.