[IO Islamic 2713] بوستان

• Bûstân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1139 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 2713 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1139

The same.

Beginning, the usual one: بنام خداوند جان آفرين الخ , but the various reading of جهاندار for خداوند (as in fact many copies read) has been suggested on the margin. The last bait of Graf’s edition is here the last but two; the additional two baits are:

هزاران درود و هزاران سلام – زمان بر محمّد عليه السّلام

ترا فتح و دولت هميشه مدام – بحقّ محمّد عليه السّلام،

Copied A.H. 1081 (A.D. 1670, 1671) by ‘Abd-alrasûl ibn Maulânâ ‘Alî. Collated. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. On the fly-leaf at the back the following note: ‘The Bostan of Sadi; Palgatacherri, Aug., 1805; J. Leyden.’

No. 2713, ff. 150, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^5/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.