[IO Islamic 1481] فرهنگ گلستان

• Farhang-i-Gulistân.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1182 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 1481 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1182

Farhang-i-Gulistân (فرهنگ گلستان).

A short Persian paraphrase of the difficult Arabic and Persian verses, the sentences of the Ḳurân, traditions of the Prophet, Sayings of other great Shaikhs, and a great many single words, especially of Arabic origin, which occur in Sa’di’s Gulistân, composed by Junaid bin ‘Abdallâh, and beginning: الحمد لله على نعمائه و الصّلوة على رسوله و السّلام على اصحابه قال الخ.

It is divided into three ḳisms:

قسم اوّل اشعار عربى و بعضى فارسئ مشكل‘

قسم دويم در مركّبات معانئ بعضى اقوال اكابر و حديث نبوى و كلام ربّانى‘

قسم سيوم در لغات مفردات و حروف تهجّى‘

The third ḳism begins on fol. 158^a.

The Persian paraphrase is an interlinear one, and written in much smaller characters than the original words and phrases. Finished the 15th of Rajab, in the fourteenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign (=A.H. 1145, A.D. 1733, Jan. 1).

No. 1481, ff. 149^b-171, ll. 18; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6¾ in. by 3½ in.