[IO Islamic 117] منتخب شاهنامه

Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 889 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 117 here with notations and hyperlinks].

889

The same.

The beginning of this copy differs in the first four and a half lines from the usual text:ستايش و نيايش مر حضرت قادرى بيچون را سزد که عالم گوناگون را از پردۀ كتم الخ, but from the fifth line onwards it agrees verbatim with that of the preceding copies: .... كه امارت و ايالت پناه حشمت واجلال الخ, corresponding to fol. 2a, l. 7 sq. in No. 175 (886 in this Cat.). Author׳s name and date of composition are missing in this preface, but the governor’s name, Shamshîrkhân, and the title, تأريخ دلگشاى شمشيرخانى, appear here on ff. 1b, last line, 2a, first line, and 2b, last line. No date. The copy was transcribed by Ḥâfiż Yâr Muḥammad and Ḥâfiż Muḥammad Murâd.

No. 117. Ff. 302, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ, all the margins throughout embellished with gold arabesques; size, 81/8 in. by 43/4 in.