[IO Islamic 1930] بوستان خيال

• Bûstân-i-Khayâl.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 838 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 1930 here with notations and hyperlinks].

838

Bûstân-i-Khayâl.

The second Gulzâr of the second Gulshan of the second Bahâr or first Gulistân, corresponding to the seventh volume of the whole work. It is incorrectly styled on fol. 1^a: دفتر سيوم از بهار دويم از , گلستان سيوم مسمّى معزّنامه and , جلد سيوم معزّنامه بوستان خيال; the same wrong designation of گلستان سيوم is given to this copy in the colophon. Another copy of the whole second Gulshan of the second Bahâr is noticed in J. Aumer, p. 58 (No. 186). Beginning:

بنام خداى كه از مشت خاك – پديد آورد گوهر تابناك

Copied A.H. ١٢ ٢ (1202?=A.D. 1787, 1788).

No. 1930; ff. 337, ll. 16; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10^7/8 in. by 6^7/8 in.