[IO Islamic 268] بوستان

Bûstân. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1148 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 268 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1148 Extracts from the Bûstân. Select verses from Sa’dî’s Bûstân, beginning with the usual initial bait: بنام خداوند جان آفرين الخ. Similar extracts were made by Shâh Ḳâsim-i-Anwâr (died A.H. 837=A.D. 1433, 1434), see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 743 and 744. As title to theses extracts is given, on fol. 1a: جزوى از بوستان سعدى. Copied in Shawwâl, A.H. 959 (A.D. 1552, Sept.-October). No. 268, ff. 24, 2 coll., each ll. 11; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; beautiful illuminations on the first two pages; size 91/8 in. by 53/4 in.