[IO Islamic 1771] بوستان خيال

• Bûstân-i-Khayâl.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 836 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 1771 here with notations and hyperlinks].

836

Bûstân-i-Khayâl.

The first Gulshan (in two Gulzâr or two volumes) of the second Bahâr or first Gulistân, corresponding to the fourth and fifth volumes of the whole work; see another copy of this first Gulshan together with the muḳaddimah (contained in the preceding copy), in J. Aumer, p. 57 (No. 185). Parts of this second Bahâr are also contained in the first British Museum copy (Add. 16, 689).

Beginning (differing from that in the Bodleian copy):

نخلبندان حدائق اخبار و گلشن آريان شقائق آثار الخ.

Colophon as in J. Aumer, p. 58:

گلشن اوّل يعنى دفتر اوّل گلستان ( اوّل supply ) يعنى جلد اوّل از (بهار دويم از supply) بوستان خيال ׳.

Copied A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1787, 1788), see No. 833 above and No. 839 below.

No. 1771, ff. 319, ll. 19; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ, written by the same hand as Nos. 1773 and 1774 (833 above); size, 12^1/2 in. by 8^1/4 in.