[IO Islamic 1933] بوستان خيال

• Bûstân-i-Khayâl.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 840 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 1933 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Bûstân-i-Khayâl.

The second daftar or jild of the third Bahâr or second Gulistân, corresponding to the ninth volume of the whole work ( جلد نهم از كتاب بوستان خيال موسوم جلد دويم از بهار سيوم). This second book has been supplemented afterwards by an extensive appendix, subdivided into two shaṭr (شطر), or as the second British Museum copy (Add. 24,935) calls them, saṭar (سطر), and bearing the special title of Shâhnâma-i-Buzurg (شاهنامۀ بزرگ); according to Rieu’s copy this appendix is also designated as سطر الجلد, see the following two copies.

Beginning: بعد از سپاس و ستايش خداوند غفور رحيم و الصلوة (و الصلوات read) ناميات بر رسول واجب التعظيم وآل و اصحاب او ...... چنین گوید .... كه چون احوال صاحب قران اصغر در جلد اوّل از بهار سيوم بجاى كه مذكور شد رسانيد شروع در تحرير جلد دويم بهار سيوم نمود و ابتداى اين جلد از احوال صاحب قران اكبر شاهزاده معزّالدين الخ.

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No. 1933, ff. 367, ll. 16; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10^5/8 in. by 63^/8 in.