[IO Islamic 980] دارابنامه

<ul> <li><strong>D&acirc;r&acirc;bn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 787&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 980 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>787</p> <p>D&acirc;r&acirc;bn&acirc;ma (دارابنامه).</p> <p>A slightly incomplete copy of one of the numerous historical romances or collections of romantic stories, founded on Persian legends, by Ab&ucirc; Ṭ&acirc;hir of Ṭarsus (or with his full name, Ab&ucirc; Ṭ&acirc;hir Muḥammad bin Ḥasan bin &lsquo;Al&icirc; bin M&ucirc;s&acirc; Ṭarṭ&ucirc;s&icirc; or Ṭars&ucirc;s&icirc;), the fruitful author of prose-epopees in imitation of Firdaus&icirc;&rsquo;s Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma, comp. Mohl, Livre des Rois, i. pr&eacute;face, pp. 74 and 75. Other works of Ab&ucirc; Ṭ&acirc;hir are the Ḳahram&acirc;nn&acirc;ma (also called D&acirc;st&acirc;n-i-Ḳahram&acirc;n or Ḥik&acirc;yat-i-Ḳahram&acirc;n-i-Ḳ&acirc;til, see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 993; and on the Turkish translation of the same, W. Pertsch, Berlin Turkish Cat., p. 460 sq., and Fleischer, Cat. Lips., p. 522) and the Ḳir&acirc;n-i-Ḥabash&icirc; (in Turkish translation in Bodleian Cat., No. 2101; Rieu, Turkish Cat., p. 219 sq., etc.). Ab&ucirc; Ṭ&acirc;hir&rsquo;s original version of the present romance on Darius and Alexander had, according to the conclusion, on fol. 444^a, been preserved in the library of the emperor Akbar and put into its present form by Kaiḳub&acirc;d bin Mihy&acirc;r, at the request of another eminent Persian, N&ucirc;shirw&acirc;n bin Bahm&acirc;nsh&acirc;h. From the brouillon of that compiler, the present copy was made by &lsquo;Abd-alraḥm&acirc;n, and finished the 8th of Jum&acirc;d&acirc;-alawwal, A.H. 1026 (A.D. 1617, May 14).</p> <p>The beginning is missing; it opens in the middle of the mythical account of D&acirc;r&acirc;b&rsquo;s youth, in the usual manner of all Oriental fairy tales.</p> <p>The first and several other leaves are greatly injured.</p> <p>No. 980, ff. 444, ll. 25 on ff. 1-94 with many blanks, ll. 21 on ff. 95-443; written by two different hands in Naskh&icirc;; size, 11^1/4 in. by 7^1/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>