[IO Islamic 1256] شاهنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 868 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 1256 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>868</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>The B&acirc;isunghar&icirc; preface, beginning here with the same verses as in No. 704 of W. Pertsch&rsquo;s Berlin Cat. (p. 735):</p> <p>فريدون و جمشيد خورشيد شان</p> <p>بامرش درين گنبد آمد روان</p> <p>This beautiful copy is divided into <em>two halves</em>, the first of which begins on fol. 10^b, the second on fol. 332^b, with the accession of Luhr&acirc;sp. No date.</p> <p>No. 1256, ff. 622, 4 coll. each ll. 25; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of the preface and of both halves of the poem; the first four pages luxuriously embellished, on the first two a long inscription as heading of the whole work; pictures on ff. 13^a, 29^a, 42^b, 52^b, 57^b, 70^b, 79^a, 102^b, 120^b, 138^b, 150^b, 175^b, 186^a, 189^a, 196^b, 207^a, 220^b, 233^b, 276^b, 321^b, 361^b, 384^b, 421^b, 460^b, 496^a, 529^a, 552^a, and 580^b; size, 17 in. by 10^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>