[IO Islamic 628] جهانگيرنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Jah&acirc;ng&icirc;rn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 894 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 628 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>894</p> <p>Jah&acirc;ng&icirc;rn&acirc;ma (جهانگيرنامه)</p> <p>Another of the older imitations of the Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma, by an anonymous author, celebrating the life and adventures of Rustam&rsquo;s son Jah&acirc;ng&icirc;r, who, like his unfortunate brother Suhr&acirc;b, engages in a fight with his father, without knowing him, until at last father and son recognize each other. Beginning:</p> <p>كنون باز كردم نگار سخن &ndash; بگويم حديث جهان كهن</p> <p>On fol. 1^b the poem is styled: آغاز داستان جهانگير بن رستم نامه كه منتخب شاهنامه است.</p> <p>Very probably it is found like the Garsh&acirc;spn&acirc;ma, the S&acirc;mn&acirc;ma and others, interpolated in some copies of the Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma. Dated A.H. 1112, 29th of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah (A.D. 1701, June 6), at Akbar&acirc;b&acirc;d.</p> <p>No. 628, ff. 166, 2 coll., each ll. 16-32, written very unequally in different kinds of Shikasta; size, 9 in. by 5^1/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>