[IO Islamic 897] قصّۀ شاه مردان على

<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣ-i-Sh&acirc;h-i-mard&acirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 786&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 897 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>786</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣ-i-Sh&acirc;h-i-mard&acirc;n &lsquo;Al&icirc; (قصّۀ شاه مردان على).</p> <p>Another very large, but likewise incomplete, Persian romance of similar character and similar contents as the preceding one, and therefore styled, in a note, on fol. 1^a, قصّۀ حمزه ; but whether it is merely another enlarged version of the Ḥamzan&acirc;ma or rather an independent romance, dealing with heroic deeds of the same period, is difficult to say; at any rate, the chief hero here is &lsquo;Al&icirc; bin Ab&icirc; Ṭ&acirc;lib, Muḥammad&rsquo;s son-in-law and fourth Khal&icirc;f, not Ḥamzah, the prophet&rsquo;s uncle; every paragraph begins with the words امّا در محلّ و زمانى كه , and closes with the phrase يا على مدد. On the other hand, several characters appearing in the preceding copy of the Ḥamzan&acirc;ma, are found here too, for instance, زمرّدشاه. In spite of its excessive length, this copy is by no means complete; it begins abruptly thus: امّا در محلّ و زمانى كه نقاب وار گوهرپوش طهماسپ را گرفت زمرّدشارا گرفت نقاب وار از عقب عمر الخ, and a great number of leaves are missing at the end; there is also a blank between the middle of fol. 6^a and that of fol. 7^a, and portions of ff. 8, 650, and 651 are torn away. Neither date nor author&rsquo;s name appears anywhere. The same note on fol. 1^a which gives to this romance the title of قصّۀ حمزه also states that it was copied A.H. 1083 (A.D. 1672, 1673).</p> <p>No. 897, ff. 664, ll. 17; distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10 in. by 5^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>