[IO Islamic 1340] بوستان

• Bûstân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1149 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 1340 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1149

A fragment of the Bûstân.

Beginning:بنام جهاندار الخ ; it breaks off, on fol. 38^b, in the second half of Bâb I, with the bait:

بخاك اندرش عقد بگسيخته – گهرهاى دندان فرو ريخته

corresponding to p. 118, last bait, in Graf’s edition.

This MS. belonged formerly to Sir Barry Close, Bart.

No. 1340, ff. 1-38^b, 2 coll., each ll. 11-15; large, unequal Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5^1/4 in.