[IO Islamic 3430] Iskandarnâma

<ul> <li><strong>Iskandarn&acirc;ma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1008&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 3430 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1008</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>An older, but slightly defective, copy of the same, in which the first nine baits of the poem are wanting; it opens with the tenth bait: جواهر تو بخشى دل سنگرا الخ.</p> <p>The episode of Alexander&rsquo;s march to the fountain of life ( چشمۀ حيات), having been omitted in the text, is added by another hand in bad Shikasta on the margin.</p> <p>The poem is here styled سكندرنامۀ برّى. Occasionally various readings on the margin. Dated the 7th of Rab&icirc;&rsquo;-al&acirc;khar, A.H. 994 (A.D. 1586, March 28), by Ṣ&acirc;liḥ Muḥammad bin Sh&acirc;h Muḥammad.</p> <p>No. 3430, olim 13.J. 1, ff. 217, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8 in. by 4&frac34; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>