[IO Islamic 3265] شاهنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 874&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 3265 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>874</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>The same preface. Beginning of the poem on fol. 6^b.</p> <p>No subdivision into books. Many pages are rather effaced, others slightly injured at the inner corners.</p> <p>The date cannot be deciphered either; the copyist&rsquo;s name was Ḥaidar Ḳul&icirc; of Har&acirc;t.</p> <p>No. 3265, olim 11. J. 1, ff. 610, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the first two pages splendidly adorned; an illuminated frontispiece besides on fol. 6^b; large pictures on ff. 9^b, 15^b, 24^b, 29^a, 34^a, 65^b, 74^b, 77^b, 84^a, 97^b, 106^b, 116^a, 129^a, 135^b, 139^a, 179^a, 188^b, 198^a, 201^a, 213^b, 238^b, 325^a, 340^a, 361^a, 374^b, 386^b, 391^b, 454^a, 459^a, 464^b, 480^b, 523^b, 535^a, 564^a, 573^b, 582^b, 602^a, 606^b, and 609^a; size, 14^7/8 in. by 9 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>