RSPA 63 (Oriental Manuscripts, British Library)

India Office Library

Jones Collection

Royal Society Arabic and Persian

Second volume of Bustān-i Khayāl

Language(s): Persian

Title: Bustān-i Khayāl

Title: بستان خیال

Author: Muḥammad Taqī al-Jaʿfarī Khayyāl محمد تفی الجعفری خیال

Incipit: زئر رفتن سلطان ابو القاسم محمد مهدی باشا هزادگان

Explicit: باید دید لوح بر بسته غایب شده متوضه مقام پاسانه وطرب انکیز کردید

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

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Thin, white, burnished paper.

Extent: i+314+v

Dimensions (leaf): 220 × 160 mm.

Foliation:

European numerals in pencil

Condition

Serious worm damage.

Layout

Hand(s)

Fine black nastaʿlīq with rubrications

Decoration

Additions:

Binding

Red leather European-style Indian binding.

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

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card for admissions procedures contact British Library, Registering for a Reader Pass. Contact apac-enquiries@bl.uk for further information on the availability of this manuscript. For information on catalogues and ordering manuscripts see Finding and ordering Persian manuscripts in the British Library.

Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World