[IO Islamic 3477] Iskandarnâma

<ul> <li><strong>Iskandarn&acirc;ma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1016&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 3477 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1016</p> <p>A defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy, defective at the beginning, opens with the following bait:</p> <p>مجرّد روى را بجائى رساند</p> <p>كه از بود او هيچ با وى نماند</p> <p>corresponding to fol. 296^b, l. 4 ab infra in No. 387 (976 in this Cat.). As date is only given the 15th (without the name of the month) of the 13th year (of perhaps &lsquo;&Acirc;lamgir&rsquo;s reign,=A.H. 1081, A.D. 1670, 1671).</p> <p>No. 3477, olim 13. J. 2, ff. 223, 2 coll., each ll. 15; very unequal Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>