[IO Islamic 1578] منتخب شاهنامه

Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 884 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 1578 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Another copy of the same.

This copy, the colophon of which styles the work تورايخ شمشيرخانى, is dated the 3rd of Rajab in the first year of the reign of Rafi’-aljalâlat (probably meant for Rafî’-aldarajât, who reigned about three months between Farrukhsiyar and Muḥammadshâh, A.H. 1131=A.D. 1719, May 22), by Sayyid Nûr Muḥammad.

Beginning as in the preceding copy. The extracts end on fol. 215a and are followed on the remaining pages by the usual additions.

No. 1578, ff. 219, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 43/4 in.