[IO Islamic 3227] منتخب شاهنامه

Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 888 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 3227 here with notations and hyperlinks].

888

The same.

Another very modern copy, transcribed (according to a note on the fly-leaf at the end of the MS.) by Ḥasan Muḥammad in the present century. Th extracts end on fol. 195a, followed by the usual additions. This copy was sent to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris for works of art and industry by the Punjab Committee at Lahore; it was received into the Library from Dr. Royle, July 1856.

No. 3227, ff. 198, ll. 17; splendid Nasta’lîḳ; many blanks left, probably for the insertion of illustrations; size, 11 in. by 61/2 in.