Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World

RSPA 62 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

Contents

First volume of Bustān-i Khayāl

Language(s): Persian

Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم. تبارک الذی جعل فی السماء بروجا وجعل فیها سراجا
Explicit: تزد خدا عزیز عورات و اطفال

This is the first in a series of seven volumes of the Bustān-i Khayāl in the Jones collection.

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: Thin, white, woven paper.
Extent: ff.iii+253+iv
Dimensions (leaf): 200 × 155 mm.
Foliation:

European numerals in pencil.

Condition

Acceptable condition. Some worm damage.

Layout

Hand(s)

Fine black nastaʿlīq with rubrications

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Standard India Office half leather binding with wine-coloured marbled endpapers.

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1770 - 1792 CE ; India

Provenance and Acquisition

RSPA 1-118 were presented to the Royal Society in January 1792 by Sir William and Lady Jones. These manuscripts were presented by Lady Jones.

The Royal Society's collection of 280 Persian and Arabic, and 86 Sanskrit manuscripts were transferred to the India Office Library in 1876.

1876

India Office Library

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on E. Denison Ross and E. G. Browne, Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1902), p.55 no. LXII-LXVII*

Availability

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Funding of Cataloguing

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