[IO Islamic 341] شاهنامه
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<strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 869 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 341 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 869 A slightly defective copy of the same. The Bâisungharî preface breaks off on fol. 10<sup>b</sup>, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 10, through which also the beginning of the poem is missing. The last words of the preface correspond to No. 3259 (865 in this Cat.), fol. 8<sup>b</sup>, l. 5. Middle; the first words of the poem, on fol. 11<sup>a</sup>, يكى آتشى بر شده تابناك, to fol. 10<sup>b</sup>, l. 7, on the margin of the same copy. The poem is divided into <em>four books</em>; Book II begins, on fol. 201<sup>b</sup>, with the story of Bizhan (بيژن); Book III, on fol. 310<sup>b</sup>, with Luhrâsp’s accession; Book IV, on fol. 470<sup>b</sup>, with the reign of Nûshirwân. All the larger headings are left blank throughout; some smaller blanks besides. Ff. 586-589 are turned upside down. This defective copy, somewhat injured in the beginning too, was finished in the month Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 987 (A.D. 1580, January-February). No. 341, ff. 596, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages embellished; size, 11<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 7<sup>3/8</sup> in.
