[IO Islamic 3255] شاهنامه

• Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 866 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 3255 here with notations and hyperlinks].

866

The same.

The Bâisungharî preface, on fol. 1^b. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 15^b. No subdivision into books. This copy was made for J. H. Peile, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service (مستر پيل صاحب بهادر والا مناقب), at Seringapatan (سرنگ پتن در سلطنت انگريز), and is dated A.H. 1220, the 26th of Muḥarram (A.D. 1805, April 26). It was presented by Mr. Peile to the Library on the 19th of September, 1818.

No. 3255, olim 11. J. 3, ff. 542, 4 coll., each ll. 21; large and clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b and 15^b; size, 14½ in. by 8¾ in.