[IO Islamic 3263] شاهنامه

• Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 870 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 3263 here with notations and hyperlinks].

870

Another more defective and incomplete copy of the same.

A large lacuna in the Bâisungharî preface after fol. 2, corresponding to fol. 3^a, l. 12-fol. 10^b, l. 9 in No. 3255 (866 in this Cat.); at the end of the preface the genealogical list of kings in mathnawî-baits (see No. 861 above). Beginning of the poem, on fol. 5^a. It consists here of three bâbs only, and goes down to the death of Farâmurz, the son of Rustam; all the rest of the poem is wanting. Book II begins, on fol. 314^b, with Gushtâsp’s accession; Book III, on fol. 368^b, with the story of Farâmurz. No date.

No. 3263, olim 11. J. 2, ff. 456, 4 coll., each ll. 25-31; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each book; pictures (some of which are full-sized) on ff. 47^b, 76^a, 89^b, 113^a, 130^b, 149^b, 155^a, 196^b, 212^b, 216^b, 241^b, 255^b, 288^b, 318^a, 322^b, 326^b, 330^b, 334^b, 343^b, 353^b, 356^b, and 398^b ; size, 15^3/8 in. by 10^1/8 in.