[IO Islamic 1779] بوستان

• Bûstân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1142 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 1779 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1142

The same.

A most splendid copy, written at the request of Nawwâb Aḥmadkhân Bahâdur bin Ghaḍanfar-aldaulah Bahâdur by Râm Pîrshâd, and finished at Shâhjahânâbâd the 14th of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1171 (A.D. 1757, Dec. 26).

No. 1779, ff. 58, 4 coll., each ll. 21; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; large illuminated frontispiece; very fine and carefully executed illustrations on ff. 2^b, 3^a, 3^b, 5^a, 8^a, 21^a, 27^b, 47^b, 50^a, 54^a, 57^b, and 58^a; size, 12^5/8 in. by 8^1/8 in.