[IO Islamic 133] شاهنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 863 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 133 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p><em>b. Copies of the Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma with the B&acirc;isunghar&icirc; preface. </em></p> <p>863</p> <p>Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma.</p> <p>The B&acirc;isunghar&icirc; preface (dated A.H. 829= A.D. 1426, see on the rather fictitious character of the same, and the whole question of the so-called B&acirc;isunghari recension, the excellent remarks of M. James Darmesteter in the &lsquo;Revue Critique,&rsquo; October 20, 1890, pp. 215 and 216), on ff. 1^b-13^b, beginning : افتتاح سخن آن به كه كنند اهل كمال الخ. At the end: تمّت الديباجة الموسومة ببايسنغرى&rsquo;</p> <p>This preface is designated by Mohl as &lsquo;pr&eacute;face No. 1,&rsquo; and is printed with a few omissions in Macan&rsquo;s Introduction to the Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma, pp. 11-61.</p> <p>Beginning of the poem, on fol. 13^b: بنام خداوند جان و خرد الخ.</p> <p>The Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma is divided into two parts, the <em>second</em> of which begins with Lur&acirc;sp&rsquo;s reign (headed: كتاب لهراسپ نامه), on fol. 270^b: چو لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت داد الخ. This splendid copy was made by Ḥasan bin Muḥamamd Aḥsan and finished at Sh&icirc;r&acirc;z the 18th of Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;dah, A.H. 967 (A.D. 1560, August 10); it was given as a present to Ḳ&acirc;simbeg the 1st of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah, A.H. 971 (A.D. 1564, July 11), according to a note on fol. 1^a.</p> <p>No. 133, ff. 538, 4 coll., each ll. 25; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; ff. 1^b and 2^a gorgeously illuminated in gold and blue arabesques, mixed with a variety of other colours; similar illuminations and an excellent frontispiece on ff. 270^b and 271^a; all the headings throughout neatly embellished; well-executed pictures on ff. 5^b, 16^b, 32^a, 54^a, 76^b, 96^a, 113^b, 127^b, 150^b, 184^b, 203^a, 227^b, 250^a, 270^b, 271^a, 304^a, 321^b, 349^b, 372^a, 389^a, 418^b, 445^b, 483^a, and 519^a; size, 14^3/4 in. by 8^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>