[IO Islamic 341] شاهنامه

• Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 869 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 341 here with notations and hyperlinks].

869

A slightly defective copy of the same.

The Bâisungharî preface breaks off on fol. 10^b, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 10, through which also the beginning of the poem is missing. The last words of the preface correspond to No. 3259 (865 in this Cat.), fol. 8^b, l. 5. Middle; the first words of the poem, on fol. 11^a, يكى آتشى بر شده تابناك, to fol. 10^b, l. 7, on the margin of the same copy. The poem is divided into four books; Book II begins, on fol. 201^b, with the story of Bizhan (بيژن); Book III, on fol. 310^b, with Luhrâsp’s accession; Book IV, on fol. 470^b, with the reign of Nûshirwân. All the larger headings are left blank throughout; some smaller blanks besides. Ff. 586-589 are turned upside down. This defective copy, somewhat injured in the beginning too, was finished in the month Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 987 (A.D. 1580, January-February).

No. 341, ff. 596, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages embellished; size, 11^3/8 in. by 7^3/8 in.