『天国の諸庭園（Rawḍāt al-Jannāt）』の 写本と未校訂箇所の研究

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Muʻīn al-Dīn Muḥammad Isfizārī’s Rawḍāt al-Jannāt has long been widely acclaimed in Iranian historical studies. However, the manuscripts of this work have received little attention since a critical edition of the text was published in Tehran in 1959–61. Therefore, this research examines the extant manuscripts. The purpose of this paper is to (I) classify the surviving manuscripts of the work into four groups and describe the features of each group based on differences in the total number of chapters and sections; (II) introduce the contents of the accounts that were not included in the revised text and demonstrate their historical significance; and (III) present the text of these accounts. The defining characteristic of manuscripts in Group A is that they contain Chapter 27, which is not found in the manuscripts of the other groups. Manuscripts in Groups B and C consist of 26 chapters, but there are omissions in several sections of the manuscript in Group C. Finally, Group D includes the only manuscript containing Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 26. An analysis of the contents of Chapter 27 and Sections 1 and 2 of Chapter 26 shows that the author of each account is Isfizārī himself and that they contain unique information about the late Timurids. First, Chapter 27 provides information about tax items that are prohibited under Islamic law. Second, the names of 14 princes of Sulṭān Ḥusayn (r. 1469–70, 1470–1506) are included in Section 1 of Chapter 26. Third, Sulṭān Ḥusayn’s architectural projects are described in Section 2 of Chapter 26. As there is little information about these subjects in the other historical sources for the late Timurids, it is obvious that the accounts not included in the revised version of Rawḍāt al-Jannāt have significant value.