[IO Islamic 3159] گلستان

• Gulistân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1163 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 3159 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1163

The same.

This copy, which is not dated, was written by Muḥammad Yaḥyâ bin Muḥammad ‘Umar, and formerly belonged to the Marquess of Hastings, to whom it was given by his most esteemed and learned friend, Antonio Viegra, 1786 (A.H. 1200, 1201), according to a note on the fly-leaf.

The right order of ff. 68-73 is: 68, 72, 70, 71, 69, 73.

No. 3159, ff. 227, ll. 11; large, but unequal Nasta’lîḳ; the first two leaves supplied later, ll. 13; splendid binding in red and gold; size, 8 in. by 4½ in.