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Sa'di, [[Bustan] [Be Etmam Resid Noskheye Boustan Fi Tasannof Hazrat-e Sheikh Saadi Shirazi]
- Date
- [not after 1649?]
- By
- Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967; Maggs Brothers (Firm)
- Reference
- MSR-40
- Description
Bustan in Persian means 'flower-garden' and the Bustan of Sa'di is a composition of stories and maxims each representing a flower in this garden. Bustan of Sa'di is world famous due to its eloquence of style, clear language, moral guidance and counseling through the art of poetry.
Source of title - supplied by cataloguer
Other - Catchwords occur at the base of each right-hand page; marginal additions are either words omitted from the text or comments upon the text.
Other - Translated colophon: 'Copy of the Boustan came to an end. Written by his Excellency Sheikh Saadi Shirazi'.
Other - Approximate date of copying supplied by translator.
Other Titles - Boustan
Other Titles - Bostan
Other Titles - Text begins 'Benam-e Jahandar-e Jan-Afarin...'
Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Physical Description: Paper, [230]p., bound.
Provenance: Part of the Kenneth Webster collection (sticker 'W11' on upper pastedown).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 volume(s), Illuminated manuscripts, Paper, [230]p., bound., Binding: modern calf, Decoration: illuminated incipit page; text within borders ruled in blue, yellow, and red. Each page has a central column ruled in red marking a new line of the poem (read continuously across the page). Headings in red.
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Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967. Sa'di, [[Bustan] [Be Etmam Resid Noskheye Boustan Fi Tasannof Hazrat-e Sheikh Saadi Shirazi]. Ref: MSR-40. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/36157697More information can be found in our terms of use.