[IO Islamic 2442] بوستان خيال

Bûstân-i-Khayâl.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 834 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 2442 here with notations and hyperlinks].

834

A short fragment of the same first Bahâr of the Bûstân-i-Khayâl.

Part of the first volume of the first Bahâr or Mahdînâma, only comprising forty-eight pages, and beginning as in the preceding copy: تبارك الذى جعل فى السماء بروجاً الخ.

The author’s name appears on ff. 7b, last line, and 8a first line; the title on fol. 12b, l. 7. The date of the commencement of the work, viz. A.H. 1155, is found here on fol. 12b, last line but two. The last words, with which this copy breaks off on fol. 48b, run thus: ،و اكثرى خليفۀ اوّل و ثانى را دوست ميداشتند و از سيوم .... corresponding to No. 1773, fol. 27b, l. 6.

No. 2442, ff. 1-48, ll. 17; large and clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 123/8 in. by 8 in.