[IO Islamic 1256] شاهنامه

Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 868 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 1256 here with notations and hyperlinks].

868

The same.

The Bâisungharî preface, beginning here with the same verses as in No. 704 of W. Pertsch’s Berlin Cat. (p. 735):

فريدون و جمشيد خورشيد شان

بامرش درين گنبد آمد روان

This beautiful copy is divided into two halves, the first of which begins on fol. 10b, the second on fol. 332b, with the accession of Luhrâsp. No date.

No. 1256, ff. 622, 4 coll. each ll. 25; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of the preface and of both halves of the poem; the first four pages luxuriously embellished, on the first two a long inscription as heading of the whole work; pictures on ff. 13a, 29a, 42b, 52b, 57b, 70b, 79a, 102b, 120b, 138b, 150b, 175b, 186a, 189a, 196b, 207a, 220b, 233b, 276b, 321b, 361b, 384b, 421b, 460b, 496a, 529a, 552a, and 580b; size, 17 in. by 103/8 in.