another copy of the first seven Parvas [IO Islamic 762] رزم نامه

[رزم نامه] Another copy of the first seven Parvas.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 762 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 1931 here with notations and hyperlinks].

Abû-alfaḍl’s preface on fol. 1a (in a rather incomplete or abridged form).

Parva I, on fol. 5a; II, on fol. 101a; III, on fol. 121b; IV, on fol. 181a; V, on fol. 197a; VI, on fol. 229a; VII, on fol. 273a. The first six Parvas are copied in the sixteenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign (A.H. 1147=A.D. 1734, 1735), the first being dated the 19th Shawwâl, the second the 23rd of the same month, the third the 17th of Dhû-alka’dah, the fifth the 15th of Dhû-alḥijjah, the sixth the 27th of the same month (the fourth being without a special date); the seventh Parva is written in another hand in the twenty-fourth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign (A. H. 1155=A.D. 1742). Worm-eaten throughout.

No. 762 ff 384. 26 Shikasta, by two hands; size 10 5/8 in. by 5 ¾ in.