[IO Islamic 399] Iskandarnâma

Iskandarnâma. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1027 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 399 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1027 A defective copy of the same. This copy, which is styled in the colophon both سكندرنامۀ بحرى and شرفنامه, was finished the 15th of Ṣafar, A.H. 1139 (eighth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign, = A.D. 1726, Oct. 12), at Aḥmadâbâd. Ff. 109b and 110, as well as a large portion of ff. 109a and 111a, are left blank, and there is a lacuna, corresponding to fol. 448b, l. 1-fol. 449b, l. 5, In No. 387 (976 in this Cat.). No. 399, ff. 125, 2 coll., each ll. 15; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/8 in. by 43/4 in.