[IO Islamic 117] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Muntakhab</strong><strong>-i-Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 889 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 117 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>889</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>The beginning of this copy differs in the first four and a half lines from the usual text:ستايش و نيايش مر حضرت قادرى بيچون را سزد که عالم گوناگون را از پردۀ كتم الخ, but from the fifth line onwards it agrees verbatim with that of the preceding copies: .... كه امارت و ايالت پناه حشمت واجلال الخ, corresponding to fol. 2^a, l. 7 sq. in No. 175 (886 in this Cat.). Author׳s name and date of composition are missing in this preface, but the governor&rsquo;s name, Shamsh&icirc;rkh&acirc;n, and the title, تأريخ دلگشاى شمشيرخانى, appear here on ff. 1^b, last line, 2^a, first line, and 2^b, last line. No date. The copy was transcribed by Ḥ&acirc;fiż Y&acirc;r Muḥammad and Ḥ&acirc;fiż Muḥammad Mur&acirc;d.</p> <p>No. 117. Ff. 302, ll. 13; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, all the margins throughout embellished with gold arabesques; size, 8^1/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>