[IO Islamic 1771] بوستان خيال

<ul> <li><strong>B&ucirc;st&acirc;n-i-Khay&acirc;l</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 836 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 1771 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>836</p> <p>B&ucirc;st&acirc;n-i-Khay&acirc;l.</p> <p>The <em>first Gulshan</em> (in two Gulz&acirc;r or two volumes) of the <em>second Bah&acirc;r </em>or <em>first Gulist&acirc;n</em>, corresponding to the <em>fourth </em>and <em>fifth</em> 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 Bah&acirc;r are also contained in the first British Museum copy (Add. 16, 689).</p> <p>Beginning (differing from that in the Bodleian copy):</p> <p>نخلبندان حدائق اخبار و گلشن آريان شقائق آثار الخ.</p> <p>Colophon as in J. Aumer, p. 58:</p> <p>گلشن اوّل يعنى دفتر اوّل گلستان ( اوّل supply ) يعنى جلد اوّل از (بهار دويم از supply) بوستان خيال ׳.</p> <p>Copied A.H. 1202 (A.D. 1787, 1788), see No. 833 above and No. 839 below.</p> <p>No. 1771, ff. 319, ll. 19; clear and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, written by the same hand as Nos. 1773 and 1774 (833 above); size, 12^1/2 in. by 8^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>