[IO Islamic 2708] Iskandarnâma

Iskandarnâma. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1007 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 2708 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1007 The first part of Iskandarnâma. Another copy of the first part of Niżâmî’s اسكندرنامه, distinctly styled in the concluding chapter, on fol. 222b, شرفنامه. Collated and annotated throughout. Beginning: خدايا جهان پادشائى تراست الخ. Dated the 6th of Ramaḍân, A.H. 1017 (A.D. 1608, December 14). A former owner of this copy was Jaswant Râo. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2708, ff. 223, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages richly adorned; size, 103/8 in. by 63/8 in.