[IO Islamic 2564] شاهنامه

Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 877 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 2564 here with notations and hyperlinks].

877

The same.

Another good copy of the Shâhnâma, with excellent and numerous marginal notes and various readings, which give quite an exceptional value to it. It is divided into two daftars, the second of which begins, on fol. 271b, after Bahrâm’s death, with the struggle between Rustam and Kâmûs:

بنام خداوند خورشيد و ماه

كه دلرا بنامش خرد داد راه

comp. No. 860 above,

The first daftar was finished A.H. 1053, last of Muḥarram (A.D. 1643, April 20); the second, the 25th of Rabî’-alâkhar in the same year (A.D. 1643, July 13).

Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2564, ff. 434, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 271b; fol. 136 partly effaced; size, 11½ in. by 7½ in.