[IO Islamic 1890] شرح سكندرنامه

• Sharḥ-i-Sikandarnâma.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1018 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 1890 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1018

Sharḥ-i-Sikandarnâma (شرح سكندرنامه).

An anonymous Persian commentary on the first part of Niżâmî’s Iskandarnâma, different not only from that of the Calcutta edition, but also from all those described in Rieu ii. pp. 820^b and 859^a; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 762-765, and A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 522 and 523.

It begins, without preface, at once with the initial bait of the poem:

خدايا جهان پادشائى تراست

زما خدمت آيد خدائى تراست،

لما خلقت الجنّ و الانس الاّ ليعبدون، بر پادشاهان مملكت اشعار و جهانداران ولايت افكار مبرهن الخ.

No date.

No. 1890, ff. 104. ll. 17; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10¾ in. by 6 in.