[IO Islamic 3265] شاهنامه

• Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 874 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 3265 here with notations and hyperlinks].

874

The same.

The same preface. Beginning of the poem on fol. 6^b.

No subdivision into books. Many pages are rather effaced, others slightly injured at the inner corners.

The date cannot be deciphered either; the copyist’s name was Ḥaidar Ḳulî of Harât.

No. 3265, olim 11. J. 1, ff. 610, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages splendidly adorned; an illuminated frontispiece besides on fol. 6^b; large pictures on ff. 9^b, 15^b, 24^b, 29^a, 34^a, 65^b, 74^b, 77^b, 84^a, 97^b, 106^b, 116^a, 129^a, 135^b, 139^a, 179^a, 188^b, 198^a, 201^a, 213^b, 238^b, 325^a, 340^a, 361^a, 374^b, 386^b, 391^b, 454^a, 459^a, 464^b, 480^b, 523^b, 535^a, 564^a, 573^b, 582^b, 602^a, 606^b, and 609^a; size, 14^7/8 in. by 9 in.