[IO Islamic 212] شرح بوستان

• Sharḥ-i-Bûstân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1152 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 212 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Sharḥ-i-Bûstân (شرح بوستان).

A very short commentary on Sa’dî’s Bûstân, in which only the difficult verses and phrases are explained, by an anonymous author, who, however, judging from the immediately following commentary on the Gulistân in this same MS. (see No. 1180 in this Cat.), seems identical with Muḥammad ‘Abd-alrasûl bin Shihâb-aldîn, who wrote both his small explanatory works on Bûstân and Gulistân in the same year, viz. A.H. 1073 (A.D. 1662, 1663), see Rieu ii. p. 604 ; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 552, etc.

The present copy begins, without any introduction, at once with the initial bait of the poem:بنام جهاندار جان آفرين ........ جهان بمعنئ روزگار مصحّح است از خدمت امير شهاب الدين حكيم الخ.

Bâb I begins on fol. 231^a.

No date.

No. 212, ff. 225-254, ll. 20; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9½ in. by 6 in.