بهارستان جامی

Manuscript..

Persian.

Title from cover..

Paper; thick cream-colored laid paper with no visible watermarks in poor condition with some damp staining to the top edge and extensive worm damage throughout. Black ink with rubrication; few marginal notes and corrections..

Manuscript is incomplete; the text breaks off shortly after the beginning of book (rawz̤ah) 7..

Place of writing not recorded, possibly Iran..

Several lines of poetry on endpaper..

Nastaʻlīq script; 20 lines in written area 17 x 8.5 cm..

Folio 1a-64b..

Library of Congress Persian manuscript, M37..

Contemporary cardboard binding with a cloth spine..

Collection of memorable sayings, witticisms, anecdotes, etc., in prose and poetry in 8 books; concerning (book 1) Sufis and saints, 2) sayings of the philosophers, 3) justice of kings, 4) generosity, 5) love, 6) jokes and witticisms, 7) poets, and 8) on animals; the text is incompete and breaks off shortly after the beginning of book 7..