[IO Islamic 530] شرح بستان

Sharḥ-i-Bustân.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1150 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 530 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Sharḥ-i-Bustân (شرح بستان).

‘Abd-alwâsi’ Hânsawi’s commentary on the Bûstân, beginning, on fol. 41b: ربّنا لا تواخذنا إن نسينا او اخطانا و صلّ على نبيّك و رسولك محمّد سيّدنا و مولانا و على آله و اصحابه الخ ميگويد معترف بعجز و نادانى در فهم الفاظ و درك معانى عبدالواسع هانسوى كه الخ ; comp. A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 552. ‘Abd-alwâsi’ of Hânsî (see above, col. 403) is also the author of the غرائب اللغات, an alphabetical glossary of Hindî words with Persian explanation, improved and re-edited by Sirâj-aldîn ‘Alî Ârzû, and of a Persian Grammar, printed 1851 in Cawnpore, comp. Rieu iii. pp. 1030a and 1096b.

The text of the Bûstân (introduction) begins, on fol. 42b: بنام جهاندار جان آفرين ; Book I, on fol. 61a; II, on fol. 106b; III, on fol. 130a; IV, on fol. 149a; V, on fol. 171a; VI, on fol. 182a; VII, on fol. 188b; VIII, on fol. 206b; IX, on fol. 216a; X, on fol. 218a. Fol. 50b is left blank, but there is no lacuna.

Not all verses, but only the difficult ones, are explained by the commentator.

This copy was finished after a careful collation by Muḥammad Naṣîr, the son of Sayyid Lutf-allâh, who was also an inhabitant of Hânsî, the 8th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1140 (A.D. 1727, Sept. 25). On fol. 220 a fragment in Hindûstânî: خيال بزبان هندى.

No. 530, ff. 41-220, ll. 11; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages sprinkled with gold; size, 8½ in. by 4½ in.