[IO Islamic 2453] دفتر دوم مجمع البدائع

Persian Romance.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 846 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 2453 here with notations and hyperlinks].

846

A large fragment of an anonymous Persian romance, defective both at the beginning and end, with a large lacuna (comprising, according to the Arabic paging, fifty-eight leaves) after fol. 22. On the back of the binding it is styled جوامع التواريخ, but on the last page more correctly, as it seems, دفتر دوم مجمع البدائع, the second book of a novel, entitled Majma’-albadâ’i’, or the collection of wonderful and surprising things. At the beginning seventeen leaves are missing, as the Arabic paging shows. The style of this work is about the same as in the preceding Bûstân-i-Khayâl, combining heroic legends and fairy tales. The copy is a correct and tolerably old one.

No. 2453, ff. 240, ll. 21; clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 95/8 in. by 71/2 in.