[IO Islamic 2564] شاهنامه

<ul> <li><strong>Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 877 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 2564 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>877</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Another good copy of the Sh&acirc;hn&acirc;ma, with excellent and numerous marginal notes and various readings, which give quite an exceptional value to it. It is divided into <em>two daftars</em>, the second of which begins, on fol. 271^b, after Bahr&acirc;m&rsquo;s death, with the struggle between Rustam and K&acirc;m&ucirc;s:</p> <p>بنام خداوند خورشيد و ماه</p> <p>كه دلرا بنامش خرد داد راه</p> <p>comp. No. 860 above,</p> <p>The first daftar was finished A.H. 1053, last of Muḥarram (A.D. 1643, April 20); the second, the 25th of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-al&acirc;khar in the same year (A.D. 1643, July 13).</p> <p>Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2564, ff. 434, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ, mixed with Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 271^b; fol. 136 partly effaced; size, 11&frac12; in. by 7&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>