[IO Islamic 341] شاهنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 869 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 341 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>869</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>The B&acirc;isunghar&icirc; preface breaks off on fol. 10^b, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 10, through which also the beginning of the poem is missing. The last words of the preface correspond to No. 3259 (865 in this Cat.), fol. 8^b, l. 5. Middle; the first words of the poem, on fol. 11^a, يكى آتشى بر شده تابناك, to fol. 10^b, l. 7, on the margin of the same copy. The poem is divided into <em>four books</em>; Book II begins, on fol. 201^b, with the story of Bizhan (بيژن); Book III, on fol. 310^b, with Luhr&acirc;sp&rsquo;s accession; Book IV, on fol. 470^b, with the reign of N&ucirc;shirw&acirc;n. All the larger headings are left blank throughout; some smaller blanks besides. Ff. 586-589 are turned upside down. This defective copy, somewhat injured in the beginning too, was finished in the month Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah, A.H. 987 (A.D. 1580, January-February).</p> <p>No. 341, ff. 596, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; the first two pages embellished; size, 11^3/8 in. by 7^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>