[IO Islamic 1770] بوستان خيال

• Bûstân-i-Khayâl.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 839 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 1770 here with notations and hyperlinks].

839

Bûstân-i-Khayâl.

The first daftar or jild of the third Bahâr or second Gulistân of the Bûstân-i-Khayâl, corresponding to the eighth volume of the whole work. This third Bahâr (the largest of the three), which relates the adventures of Ṣâḥib Ḳirân-i-Akbar Shâhzâda Mu’izz-aldîn, Ṣâḥib Ḳirân-i-A’żam Shâhzâda Khurshîd Tâjbaksh, and Ṣâḥib Ḳirân-i-Aṣghar Shâhzâda Badr-i-munîr, bears the special title of Khurshîdnâma (خورشيدنامه), and is subdivided into seven books (دفتر or جلد) or eight volumes, the last two of which (the fourteenth and fifteenth, together with the Khâtimah) are missing in this collection. This first daftar begins: اداى حمد و سپاس ربّ العالمين حكيم عليم و نعت درود سيّد المرسلين رسول كريم و مدح و منقبت الخ.

In l.6 this heading appears: آغاز گلستان دوم بهار سيوم از كتاب بوستان كه موسوم است بخورشيدنامه، امّا راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و محدّثان اين حديث شيرين بيان و مخبر ( مخبران Bodl.copy correctly ) اين داستان رنگین الخ.

Conclusion:

ان شاء الله تعالى بعد ازين احوال صاحبقران اعظم و صاحبقران اصغر در دفتر دويم مذكور كرده ( كرد read) خواهد شد الخ.

Dated the 7th of Muḥarram, A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1787, Oct. 19).

No. 1770, ff. 388, ll. 19; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 12^1/2 in. by 8^1/4 in.