[IO Islamic 1990] فهرست شاهنامه

Fihrist-i-Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 892 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 1990 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Fihrist-i-Shâhnâma ( فهرست شاهنامه).

A curious composition in form of a ḳaṣidah, with the same rhyme in ١ running through the whole book, giving a versified index of the contents of the Shâhnâma, compiled by Shîrîrn Parand (شيرين پرند) for the sake of a better recollection of the principal incidents in Firdausî’s masterpiece.

It opens with a rubâ’i, beginning thus:

اين نامه بشاهنامه انداخته است الخ

This copy is defective, going down only to the end of Kaikhusrau’s reign.

Copied A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753), according to a note on fol. 1a.

No. 1990, ff. 22, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ, much damaged and many lines almost effaced; size, 81/2 in. by 45/8 in.