[IO Islamic 175] منتخب شاهنامه

• Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 886 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 175 here with notations and hyperlinks].

886

The same.

Beginning:حمد بيغايت و ثناى بينهايت مر حضرت كبرياى واجب الوجود ربوبيّت جلالش از ادراك افهام الخ.

The date of composition is here (on fol. 1^b, l. 8) wrongly given as A.H. 1061 instead of 1063, although it is distinctly stated that it was the 26th year of Shâhjahân’s reign. The title, تأريخ دلگشاى شمشيرخانى, appears on fol. 3^a, first line. Copied in the fifth year of Shah ‘Âlam’s reign (=A.H. 1177, A.D. 1763, 1764).

No. 175, ff. 296, ll. 16; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 11^5/8 in. by 6^1/2 in.