[IO Islamic 3267] شاهنامه

• Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 862 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 3267 here with notations and hyperlinks].

862

Another copy of the first half of the poem.

This copy, with the older preface on fol. 1^b, contains only the first half, respectively the first two books of the Shâhnâma; Book I begins on fol. 8^b, Book II on fol. 163^b; the first goes down to Afrâsiyâb’s hearing of the flight of the Irânians; the second to Arjâsp’s death by the hand of Isfandiyâr. All the rest of the poem is wanting. No date. The copyist was Muḥammad Fâḍil, known as ادها بنى اسرائيل كولوى. A few various readings on the margin.

No. 3267, olim 11. J. 6, ff. 325, 4 coll., each ll. 25; good and clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11^3/8 in. by 6^5/8 in.