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Summary of Contents: شبستان خیال A fair copy of the euphuistic work entitled Shabistan-i-Khayal or Shabistán-i-
Nikat, consisting of eight Babs and a Khatima, which was composed in 843/1439-40
by Yahyà Síbak, with the pen-name Fattáḥí, of Nishápúr, the author of the famous
allegory Husn ú Dil. Begins: حمد خدائی را که چشم میم حمدش دریائی است Ff. 143 of 23'4 x 13'2 c. and 11 ll. Clear nasta'liq with rubrications and many
glosses in the margins. Transcribed at Akbarábád and dated Şafar, the 35th year
of the reign of Akbar, i.e. 998/1589. The name of the copyist is illegible.

Author: Fattāḥī, d. ca. 1448 فتاحی، يحيى سيبك نيشاپوری

Title: Shabistān-i khayāl

Title: Shabistān-i nikāt

Title: شبستان خيال

Title: شبستان نكات

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: Ff. 143

Dimensions: 23.4 × 13.2 cm.

Layout

11 lines

Hand(s)

Clear nasta'liq with rubrications and many glosses in the margins.

History

Origin: 998 AH; 1589 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

Bequest of E. G. Browne.

Record Sources

Summary, physical description and provenance copied from R. A. Nicholson: A descriptive catalogue of the Oriental MSS belonging to the late E.G. Browne. Cambridge, 1932.

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Funding of Cataloguing

JISC

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