[IO Islamic 315] شاهنامه

<strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 875 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 315 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> d. <em>Copies of the Shâhnâma without any preface.</em> 875 Shâhnâma. This copy, which is dated by Ya’ḳûb bin Isḥaḳ A.H. 1009, 10th of Rabî’ alawwal (A.D. 1600, September 19), is divided into <em>two halves</em>, the first beginning on fol. 1^b, the second on fol. 270^b, with Luhrâsp’s accession : چون لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت داد الخ. No. 315, ff. 510, 4 coll., each ll. 25; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; rich illumination on ff. 1^a, 1^b, and 2^a, and an illuminated frontispiece besides at the beginning of the second half; size, 13^5/8 in. by 8^3/8 in.