[IO Islamic 3056] ديباچۀ شاهنامه

Shâhnâma. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 871 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3056 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 871 Dîbâća-i-Shâhnâma ( ديباچۀ شاهنامه). Another copy of the Bâisungharî preface, beginning: افتتاح سخن آن به كه كند اهل كمال الخ, and ending with the short chronological list of the Pîshdâdian, Kayânian, Ashkânian, and Sâsânian kings of Persia. No date. No. 3056, ff. 44-66, ll. 11; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 65/8 in.