[IO Islamic 165] شاهنامه

<strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 879 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 165 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 879 The same. This copy is likewise divided into <em>two halves</em>, the second of which begins, on fol. 292^a, with Luhrâsp’s accession: چو لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت شاد الخ See Nos. 863, 867-869, and 875 above. All the headings throughout are left blank. No date. Bound together with MS. is a letter of W. Jones to Richard Johnson, to whom this copy once belonged and who had lent it to Mr. Jones. No. 165, ff. 626, 4 coll., each ll. 21; clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages richly adorned; size, 11^5/8 in. by 7^3/8 in.