RAS Persian 258B. (Library, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

The initial entry is handwritten on the Library copy of Codrington. Back fllyleaf, verso: Persian Goolestan or Flower Garden given to me by my Nephew Edwin Lance of the E.I. Company Service Clyffe Jany 18. 1856. Written for Thakur Das, entitled Budhraj, apparently a ruling prince, at the command of the learned Partab Singh. The colophon gives details of the editing and printing of the Gulistan and commentaries on it on the instructions of the English. Possibly the MS is copied from a printed version. Ruled margins. Headings in red. Illuminated panels above the beginning of the preface and each of the chapters. Marginal glosses in red and black.

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