[IO Islamic 301] شاهنامه

Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 873 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 301 here with notations and hyperlinks].

873

The same.

The same preface as in the preceding copy: حمد و ستايش مر خدايرا الخ, with the short genealogical account at the end. The first 61/2 lines of this preface are repeated on ff. 6b and 7a.

Beginning of the poem, on fol. 7b. No subdivision into books; the copy is slightly injured in several places, especially towards the end.

Dated by Âdîna of Bukhârâ, A.H. 1008, the 10th of Sha’bân (A.D. 1600, February 25), at Samarḳand.

No. 301, ff. 375, 4 coll., each ll. 35; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; vignettes on ff. 1a and 6a; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 7b; ff. 6b and 7a splendidly embellished; pictures on ff. 51b, 52b, 68a, 73a, 91b, 97a, 100a, 103b, 122a, 135b, 136b, 142a, 169b, 185b, 186a, 192a, 223a, 229a, 237b, 247a, 269b, 281b, 297a, 349a, and 370b; size, 141/4 in. by 9 in.