[IO Islamic 3485] بوستان

• Bûstân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1136 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 3485 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Bûstân.

Another copy of Sa’dî’s Bûstân, not dated, but old, probably belonging to the end of the tenth century of Hijrah.

Beginning:بنام خداوند جان آفرين الخ.

Bâb I, on fol. 5^b; II, on fol. 40^a; III, on fol. 58^a; IV, on fol. 70^b; V, on fol. 88^a; VI, on fol. 95^a; VII, on fol. 101^a; VIII, on fol. 115^b; IX, on fol. 124^b; X, on fol. 131^b.

No. 3485, olim 20. J. 10, ff. 135, 2 coll., each ll. 15; very neat and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8^5/8 in. by 5^1/8 in.