180

SUPPLEMENTARY HAND-LIST

361. The MS. is undated and is written in good nasta'liq on

pages of 30 x 16 c.

1085–1098 (p)

گلستان سعدی

Or. 741¹ (9),

Or. 750 (7),

Or. 751 (8),

Or. 752 (8),

Or. 939 (8),

Christ's, Dd. 4. 14,
Corpus, No. 20¹,

Corpus, No. 701
Corpus, No. 173
Jesus, No. 7
Queens', Nos. 3 & 4
Trinity, R. 13.36
Trinity, R. 13.107
Trinity, R. 13.108

Fourteen or fifteen copies of the well-known Gulistán of
Sa'dí of Shíráz and its various translations and commentaries.
Or. 741 contains the commentary on difficult words and
passages in the text by Muhammad b. Shihábu'd-Dín b.
Shaykh 'Abdu'lláh b. Shaykh Hasan al-Qurashí al-Hashimí.
The MS., bought of Géjou on March 27, 1907, contains 15 ff.
of 24 × 17 c. and 32 11., comprises 5 sections, and is written in
a poor nasta'liq with the text overlined. Or. 750 contains
the text with the Arabic commentary of Surúrí. The MS.,
copied at Amásiya in 957/1550, was bought of Géjou on
March 27, 1907, and contains 291 ff. of 19 x 11'5 c. and 19 11.
It is written in a clumsy nasta'liq with rubrications, and the
text is overlined with red. Or. 751, dated 934/1528, was
bought of Géjou on March 27, 1907, contains 149 ff. of 19'4 x
14 c. and 17 11., and is written in a clumsy Turkish nasta'liq
with rubrications and overlinings in red. It contains the text
with the Arabic commentary of Ya'qúb b. Sayyid 'Alí. Or.
752 contains the text with the Turkish commentary of
Sham'í. It is undated, was bought of Géjou on March 27, 1907,
comprises 162 ff. of 20'6 x 13 c. and 23 11., and is written in a
small nasta'liq with rubrications. Or. 939, containing the
Persian text, comprises 109 ff. of 20'3 x 137 c. and 15 ll., is
undated, and is written in a poor Turkish ta'liq with rubrica-
tions. The date of its acquisition by the Library is unrecorded,
but it belonged to Claudius J. Rich in Jan. 1804, and afterwards
to Adam White, who gave it to Henry Gough on Sept. II,
1858. The Christ's MS. contains the text written in a clear
Indian ta'liq on 87 ff. of 28.2 x 20 c. and 15 11. Corpus 201
contains a Hindustání translation. It is dated 1268/1852 and

OF MUHAMMADAN MSS. IN CAMBRIDGE

181

comprises 70 ff. written in ta'liq. Corpus 70¹ contains a
Persian commentary by Muḥammad 'Abdu'r-Rasúl b. Shi-
hábu'd-Dín b. 'Abdu'lláh. It is dated 1262/1846, comprises
66 ff. of 27.5 x 17 c., and is written in a modern ta'liq. Corpus
173, dated 1253/1837-8, is written in a negligent nasta'liq on
pages of 22 x 16 c. Jesus 7, dated 1096/1685, is well written
and bears the seal of George Lewis with the date A.D. 1707.
Queens' 3 and 4 are two undated Indian copies, the second
containing at the end some verses in praise of God, etc. Of the
three Trinity MSS. the first (R. 13.36), described on pp. 83-4
of Palmer's Trin. Cat., contains 106 ff. and was copied in A.D.
1594. The second (R. 13.107) contains 153 ff. and four
illustrations, has the Bústán written in the margins, and is
described on p. 173 of the Trin. Cat. The third (R. 13.108)
contains 96 ff., is undated, and is described on p. 174 of the
Trin. Cat.

1099 (p)

گلستان شعور

Corpus, No. 1781
Gulistán-i-Shu'úr, an epistolary manual by the Nawwáb
Mustafá Khán. The MS. is dated 1222/1807-8, is written in
shikasta, and contains 26 ff. of 20 × 12 c.

1100-1103 (p)

گلشن ابراهیمی (= تاریخ فرشته)

(Christ's, Dd. 5.1

Christ's, Dd. 5.2

Christ's, Dd.5.4

King's, No. 102

Four copies of the Gulshan-i-Ibráhími or Tarikh-i-
Firishta, the well-known general history of India from the
earliest times to 1015/1606-7 by Muhammad Qasim Hindúsháh
of Astarábád, commonly called Firishta. See B.M.P.C., pp.
225-8; Camb. Pers. Cat., Nos. lxxxii-lxxxiii, pp. 155-7. Of
the three Christ's MSS. Dd.5.1 is written in a rather scratchy
ta'liq on 274 ff. of 28.6 x 21'3 c. and 19 11., but has a full Index
prefixed; Dd. 5. 2, copied in Haydarábád, is written in a fine
naskh on 450 ff. of 29.2 x 18'5 c. and 19 ll. with the titles and
headings in red; and Dd. 5. 4, undated, is written in an
Indian ta'liq on 308 ff. of 32 x 21.6 c. and 17 11. The King's MS.
comprises 2 vols. of 243 and 308 ff. respectively, and was
copied in 1198/1783-4 by a certain Imám-bakhsh.