[IO Islamic 3227] منتخب شاهنامه

• Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 888 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 3227 here with notations and hyperlinks].

888

The same.

Another very modern copy, transcribed (according to a note on the fly-leaf at the end of the MS.) by Ḥasan Muḥammad in the present century. Th extracts end on fol. 195^a, followed by the usual additions. This copy was sent to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris for works of art and industry by the Punjab Committee at Lahore; it was received into the Library from Dr. Royle, July 1856.

No. 3227, ff. 198, ll. 17; splendid Nasta’lîḳ; many blanks left, probably for the insertion of illustrations; size, 11 in. by 6^1/2 in.