[IO Islamic 2140] خمسۀ قاسمی

• Khamsa-i-Ḳâsimî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1438 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 2140 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1438

Another copy of Ḳâsimî’s Shâhnâma.

No date; some pages injured; beginning as in the preceding copy. The transcriber was Muḥammad alḳiwâm of Shîrâz. College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2140, ff. 216, 2, centre-coll., each ll. 9, with a third on the margin of ff. 196-216, ll. 18; the first two pages richly illuminated, but rather effaced, like the text of the first baits; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9^7/8 in. by 6^1/8 in.