[IO Islamic 3263] شاهنامه

Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 870 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 3263 here with notations and hyperlinks].

870

Another more defective and incomplete copy of the same.

A large lacuna in the Bâisungharî preface after fol. 2, corresponding to fol. 3a, l. 12-fol. 10b, l. 9 in No. 3255 (866 in this Cat.); at the end of the preface the genealogical list of kings in mathnawî-baits (see No. 861 above). Beginning of the poem, on fol. 5a. It consists here of three bâbs only, and goes down to the death of Farâmurz, the son of Rustam; all the rest of the poem is wanting. Book II begins, on fol. 314b, with Gushtâsp’s accession; Book III, on fol. 368b, with the story of Farâmurz. No date.

No. 3263, olim 11. J. 2, ff. 456, 4 coll., each ll. 25-31; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each book; pictures (some of which are full-sized) on ff. 47b, 76a, 89b, 113a, 130b, 149b, 155a, 196b, 212b, 216b, 241b, 255b, 288b, 318a, 322b, 326b, 330b, 334b, 343b, 353b, 356b, and 398b ; size, 153/8 in. by 101/8 in.