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

No. 2442, ff. 1-48, ll. 17; large and clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 12^3/8 in. by 8 in.