[IO Islamic 341] شاهنامه

Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 869 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 341 here with notations and hyperlinks].

869

A slightly defective copy of the same.

The Bâisungharî preface breaks off on fol. 10b, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 10, through which also the beginning of the poem is missing. The last words of the preface correspond to No. 3259 (865 in this Cat.), fol. 8b, l. 5. Middle; the first words of the poem, on fol. 11a, يكى آتشى بر شده تابناك, to fol. 10b, l. 7, on the margin of the same copy. The poem is divided into four books; Book II begins, on fol. 201b, with the story of Bizhan (بيژن); Book III, on fol. 310b, with Luhrâsp’s accession; Book IV, on fol. 470b, with the reign of Nûshirwân. All the larger headings are left blank throughout; some smaller blanks besides. Ff. 586-589 are turned upside down. This defective copy, somewhat injured in the beginning too, was finished in the month Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 987 (A.D. 1580, January-February).

No. 341, ff. 596, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages embellished; size, 113/8 in. by 73/8 in.