[IO Islamic 315] شاهنامه

Shâhnâma. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 875 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 315 here with notations and hyperlinks]. d. Copies of the Shâhnâma without any preface. 875 Shâhnâma. This copy, which is dated by Ya’ḳûb bin Isḥaḳ A.H. 1009, 10th of Rabî’ alawwal (A.D. 1600, September 19), is divided into two halves, the first beginning on fol. 1b, the second on fol. 270b, with Luhrâsp’s accession : چون لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت داد الخ. No. 315, ff. 510, 4 coll., each ll. 25; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; rich illumination on ff. 1a, 1b, and 2a, and an illuminated frontispiece besides at the beginning of the second half; size, 135/8 in. by 83/8 in.