[IO Islamic 1256] شاهنامه

• Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 868 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 1256 here with notations and hyperlinks].

868

The same.

The Bâisungharî preface, beginning here with the same verses as in No. 704 of W. Pertsch’s Berlin Cat. (p. 735):

فريدون و جمشيد خورشيد شان

بامرش درين گنبد آمد روان

This beautiful copy is divided into two halves, the first of which begins on fol. 10^b, the second on fol. 332^b, with the accession of Luhrâsp. No date.

No. 1256, ff. 622, 4 coll. each ll. 25; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of the preface and of both halves of the poem; the first four pages luxuriously embellished, on the first two a long inscription as heading of the whole work; pictures on ff. 13^a, 29^a, 42^b, 52^b, 57^b, 70^b, 79^a, 102^b, 120^b, 138^b, 150^b, 175^b, 186^a, 189^a, 196^b, 207^a, 220^b, 233^b, 276^b, 321^b, 361^b, 384^b, 421^b, 460^b, 496^a, 529^a, 552^a, and 580^b; size, 17 in. by 10^3/8 in.