[IO Islamic 268] بوستان

<strong>Bûstân.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1148 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 268 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 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. 1^a: 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 9^1/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.