[IO Islamic 1255] Solomon and the Griffin

<ul> <li><strong>Solomon and the Griffin.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 854 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 1255 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>854</p> <p>The story of Solomon and the Griffin, a Persian romance in prose, by an anonymous author, beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الخ بدانكه در خبر آمده است كه روزى سليمان عليه السّلام شبى بمسند بار داده نشسته بودند الخ.</p> <p>Numerous illustration, almost on every page. No date.</p> <p>No. 1255, ff. 26, ll. 19; large and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 18^1/4 in. by 10^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>