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[IO Islamic 1932] بوستان خيال

<ul> <li>Bûstân-i-Khayâl.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 835 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1932 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 835 Bûstân-i-Khayâl. The muḳaddimah (or first volume) of the second Bahâr or first Gulistân of the Bûstân-i-Khayâl, that is the third volume of the whole work. This second Bahâr, which relates the adventures of Mu’izz-aldîn or Alḳâ’im-biamrillâh (see the preceding copy), bears the special titles of Mu’izznâma معزّنامه, Ḳâ’imnâma قائمنامه, or even Ṣâḥibḳirânnâma صاحب قراننامه, and is subdivided into a muḳaddimah and two Gulshan, each Gulshan containing two Gulzâr. Beginning: هرگونه ستايشى كه در دل هر ستايش كننده بگذرد و زبان ( بر زبان Bodl.copy correctly) او جارى گردد سزاوار جناب خداونديست الخ. Conclusion:مناسب چنان نمود كه مقدّمۀ بهار دويم را كه عبارت از دفتر قائمنامه باشد درين مقام باختتام رسانيده شروع در گلستان اوّل از بهار دويم از بوستان خيال نمايد الخ. The designation given to this volume in the colophon, viz. تمام شد جلد ثالث مهدينامه, is incorrect, since the Mahdinâma comprises only the first two volumes. No date. No. 1932, ff. 152, ll. 16; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 105/8 in. by 65/8 in.

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