[IO Islamic 3430] Iskandarnâma

<strong>Iskandarnâma.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1008 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 3430 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1008 The same. An older, but slightly defective, copy of the same, in which the first nine baits of the poem are wanting; it opens with the tenth bait: جواهر تو بخشى دل سنگرا الخ. The episode of Alexander’s march to the fountain of life ( چشمۀ حيات), having been omitted in the text, is added by another hand in bad Shikasta on the margin. The poem is here styled سكندرنامۀ برّى. Occasionally various readings on the margin. Dated the 7th of Rabî’-alâkhar, A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586, March 28), by Ṣâliḥ Muḥammad bin Shâh Muḥammad. No. 3430, olim 13.J. 1, ff. 217, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 4¾ in.