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[IO Islamic 119] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 881 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 119 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>881</p> <p>An incomplete copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy breaks off in the story of Khusrau Parwîz;</p> <p>The last verse:</p> <p>پراگنده شد لشكر شهريار</p> <p>سيه گشت روز و تبه گشت كار</p> <p>Corresponds to fol. 576<sup>b</sup>, first line, in No. 118 (861 in this Cat.). Many small injuries throughout.</p> <p>No. 119, ff. 554, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; a vignette on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>; ff. 1<sup>b</sup> and 2<sup>a</sup> luxuriously illuminated; at the beginning and end of the MS. two large pictures; size, 13<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 8<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1798] گنجنامه در حلّ لغات شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Ganjnâma dar ḥall-i-lughât-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 891 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1798 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>891</p> <p>Ganjnâma dar ḥall-i-lughât-i-Shâhnâma ( گنجنامه در حلّ لغات شاهنامه).</p> <p>A special dictionary for Firdausî’s Shâhnâma, compiled at the request of Riḍâ Ḳulîbeg, with the epithet Niknâmkhân (see fol. 3<sup>a</sup>, ll. 8 and 9), by ‘Alî almakkî Ibn Ṭaifûr albisṭâmî (see fol. 3<sup>b</sup>, l. 10), and completed the 7th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1668, November 12). It is arranged alphabetically according to the <em>first</em> and <em>second</em> letters, and begins on fol. 9<sup>a</sup> with آباد. An introduction or آغاز precedes the dictionary, and is subdivided into the following three paragraphs ( مضمون):</p> <p>1.در بيان طلاق اسم پارس بر ملک ایران و آنکه در زمان قديم و عهد باستان از كجا تا كجارا پارس ميخوانده اند, on fol. 4<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>2.در تعداد زبان پارسى كه چند است, on fol. 5<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>3.در بيان فضيلت ابناى پارس و فصحات زبان پارسی, on fol. 7<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>Beginning (as in Firdausî’s poem):</p> <p>بنام خداوند جان و خرد – كزين برتر انديشه در نگذرد</p> <p>This copy was made a short time after the completion of the work in the same year, 1079, by Ibn Raḥmat-allâh alḥusainî Ibrâhîm, and finished the 14th of Shawwâl (A.D. 1669, March 17). It belonged formerly to Robert Ireland, Fort William in Bengal (1781). There is another entry on the fly-leaf: the 16th June, 1773, Calcutta, and the book is called there نعت شاهنامه, and ‘A definition of many hard phrases made use of in the Shâhnâma.’</p> <p>No. 1798, ff. 205, ll. 15; Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece; size, 11<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 6<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1990] فهرست شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Fihrist-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 892 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1990 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>892</p> <p>Fihrist-i-Shâhnâma ( فهرست شاهنامه).</p> <p>A curious composition in form of a ḳaṣidah, with the same rhyme in ١ running through the whole book, giving a versified index of the contents of the Shâhnâma, compiled by Shîrîrn Parand (شيرين پرند) for the sake of a better recollection of the principal incidents in Firdausî’s masterpiece.</p> <p>It opens with a rubâ’i, beginning thus:</p> <p>اين نامه بشاهنامه انداخته است الخ</p> <p>This copy is defective, going down only to the end of Kaikhusrau’s reign.</p> <p>Copied A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753), according to a note on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>No. 1990, ff. 22, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ, much damaged and many lines almost effaced; size, 8<sup>1/2 </sup>in. by 4<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 175] منتخب شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Muntakhab</strong><strong>-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 886 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 175 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>886</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Beginning:حمد بيغايت و ثناى بينهايت مر حضرت كبرياى واجب الوجود ربوبيّت جلالش از ادراك افهام الخ.</p> <p>The date of composition is here (on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, l. 8) wrongly given as A.H. 1061 instead of 1063, although it is distinctly stated that it was the 26th year of Shâhjahân’s reign. The title, تأريخ دلگشاى شمشيرخانى, appears on fol. 3<sup>a</sup>, first line. Copied in the fifth year of Shah ‘Âlam’s reign (=A.H. 1177, A.D. 1763, 1764).</p> <p>No. 175, ff. 296, ll. 16; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 11<sup>5/8</sup> in. by 6<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3227] منتخب شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Muntakhab</strong><strong>-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 888 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3227 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>888</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Another very modern copy, transcribed (according to a note on the fly-leaf at the end of the MS.) by Ḥasan Muḥammad in the present century. Th extracts end on fol. 195<sup>a</sup>, followed by the usual additions. This copy was sent to the Imperial Exhibition at Paris for works of art and industry by the Punjab Committee at Lahore; it was received into the Library from Dr. Royle, July 1856.</p> <p>No. 3227, ff. 198, ll. 17; splendid Nasta’lîḳ; many blanks left, probably for the insertion of illustrations; size, 11 in. by 6<sup>1/2</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 1578] منتخب شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Muntakhab</strong><strong>-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 884 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1578 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>884</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>This copy, the colophon of which styles the work تورايخ شمشيرخانى, is dated the 3rd of Rajab in the first year of the reign of Rafi’-aljalâlat (probably meant for Rafî’-aldarajât, who reigned about three months between Farrukhsiyar and Muḥammadshâh, A.H. 1131=A.D. 1719, May 22), by Sayyid Nûr Muḥammad.</p> <p>Beginning as in the preceding copy. The extracts end on fol. 215<sup>a</sup> and are followed on the remaining pages by the usual additions.</p> <p>No. 1578, ff. 219, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>5/8</sup> in. by 4<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2593] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 878 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2593 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>878</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>This copy, which is not dated, is likewise divided into <em>two halves</em>, the first on ff. 1<sup>b</sup>-305<sup>b</sup>, the second beginning, on fol. 307<sup>b</sup>, with Gushtâsp’s accession:</p> <p>چو گشتاسپ را داد لهراسپ بخت</p> <p>فرود آمد از تخت وبر بست رخت</p> <p>Fol. 306 is left blank; there seem also to be small lacunas after ff. 241, 243, 586, and 587, as the catch-words do not agree with the beginning of the first line in the next pages.</p> <p>This copy contains the very rare epilogue, quoted in Rieu ii. p. 535<sup>a</sup> (see No.860 above), and beginning here:</p> <p>چو شد ایزدی ( اسپرى Rieu ) داستان بزرگ</p> <p>سخنهای آن خسروان بزرگ</p> <p>In which as date of completion for the Shâhnâma A.H. 389 (A.D. 999) is given: (read با) نهم سال هشتاد تا سيصدست.</p> <p>This copy was transcribed by Mahdî ‘Alî Kashmîrî; it may belong to the tenth century of the Hijrah.</p> <p>No. 2593, ff. 602, 4 coll., each ll. 23; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ, the first two pages splendidly illuminated; a portion of the text at the top of the last two leaves torn away; size, 9<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3265] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 874 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3265 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>874</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>The same preface. Beginning of the poem on fol. 6<sup>b</sup>.</p> <p>No subdivision into books. Many pages are rather effaced, others slightly injured at the inner corners.</p> <p>The date cannot be deciphered either; the copyist’s name was Ḥaidar Ḳulî of Harât.</p> <p>No. 3265, olim 11. J. 1, ff. 610, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages splendidly adorned; an illuminated frontispiece besides on fol. 6<sup>b</sup>; large pictures on ff. 9<sup>b</sup>, 15<sup>b</sup>, 24<sup>b</sup>, 29<sup>a</sup>, 34<sup>a</sup>, 65<sup>b</sup>, 74<sup>b</sup>, 77<sup>b</sup>, 84<sup>a</sup>, 97<sup>b</sup>, 106<sup>b</sup>, 116<sup>a</sup>, 129<sup>a</sup>, 135<sup>b</sup>, 139<sup>a</sup>, 179<sup>a</sup>, 188<sup>b</sup>, 198<sup>a</sup>, 201<sup>a</sup>, 213<sup>b</sup>, 238<sup>b</sup>, 325<sup>a</sup>, 340<sup>a</sup>, 361<sup>a</sup>, 374<sup>b</sup>, 386<sup>b</sup>, 391<sup>b</sup>, 454<sup>a</sup>, 459<sup>a</sup>, 464<sup>b</sup>, 480<sup>b</sup>, 523<sup>b</sup>, 535<sup>a</sup>, 564<sup>a</sup>, 573<sup>b</sup>, 582<sup>b</sup>, 602<sup>a</sup>, 606<sup>b</sup>, and 609<sup>a</sup>; size, 14<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 9 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 2755] منتخب شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Muntakhab</strong><strong>-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 883 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 2755 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>883</p> <p>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma ( منتخب شاهنامه).</p> <p>This is the oldest copy in the India Office Collection of the well-known extracts from the Shâhnâma, compiled with a connecting narrative in prose by Tawakkulbeg bin Tûlakbeg (according to one copy in the British Museum, Tawakkul Muḥammad bin Tûlak Muḥammad al-Ḥusainî), an officer of the prince Dârâ Shukûh, at the request of the governor of Ghazna, Shamshîrkhân, comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 504; Rieu ii. p. 539 sq.; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 740; A. F. Mehren, p. 540; Mohl, Le livre des rois, vol. i, préface, p. lxxix, etc. Unfortunately this copy is very illegible in many places, as a great number of different hands have been engaged in transcribing the MS.</p> <p>Beginning:حمد بيغايت و ثناى بينهايت مر حضرت كبرياء واجب الوجودى را كه جناب قدسئ هويّت جلالش را از ادراك افهام الخ.</p> <p>The date of composition, viz. A.H. 1063 (26th year of Shâhjahân’s reign=A.D. 1653), appears here on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, l. 3 ab infra; the name of the author on fol. 2<sup>a</sup>, l. 2, and that of the governor, Shamshîrkhân, on fol. 2<sup>a</sup>, l. 5.</p> <p>As title is given here, besides the منتخب شاهنامه, both on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>, l. 6, and in the colophon, خلاصۀ شاهنامه (see Rieu, loc. cit.). The usual title, تأريخ دلگشاى شمشيرخانى, is not found in this copy. At the end of Ardashîr’s reign, on ff. 168<sup>a</sup>-171<sup>b</sup>, the usual additions, list of the Sâsânian kings, biography of Firdausî, and the satire against Sulṭân Maḥmûd. Dated the 25th of Ṣafar in the 46th year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign (=A.H. 1114, A.D. 1702, July 21). Bibliotheca Leydeniana; a former owner was Robert Watherston.</p> <p>This work was translated into English by J. Atkinson, in ‘The Shahnamah of Firdausi,’ London, 1832. An abridged translation of the same in rekhta verse, styled شاهنامۀ مولچند, was made by Mûlćand Munshî of Lakhnau, who lived in Dihlî, and dedicated his work to the Sulṭân of Dihlî, Shâh Abû Naṣr Akbarshâh (i. e. Akbar II, who reigned A.H. 1221-1253=A.D. 1806-1837), A.H. 1225 (A.D. 1810), according to the chronogram قصّۀ خسروان عجم ( in a copy of this book in No. 3128 of the India Office Collection, fol. 6<sup>b</sup>, ll. 7 and 8, and fol. 351<sup>a</sup>, ll. 5 and 6,comp. Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la littérature Hindouie etc., 2nd ed., ii. p. 586 sq., and A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 627, where the wrong date, 1220, is given; printed Calcutta, 1846; lithographed at Dihlî and Kânpûr, A.H. 1268, also at Lakhnau).</p> <p>No. 2755, ff. 171, ll. 14-21; written by at least half-a-dozen hands in various styles of careless Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 9<sup>1/8</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3263] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 870 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3263 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>870</p> <p>Another more defective and incomplete copy of the same.</p> <p>A large lacuna in the Bâisungharî preface after fol. 2, corresponding to fol. 3<sup>a</sup>, l. 12-fol. 10<sup>b</sup>, l. 9 in No. 3255 (866 in this Cat.); at the end of the preface the genealogical list of kings in mathnawî-baits (see No. 861 above). Beginning of the poem, on fol. 5<sup>a</sup>. It consists here of <em>three bâbs</em> only, and goes down to the death of Farâmurz, the son of Rustam; all the rest of the poem is wanting. Book II begins, on fol. 314<sup>b</sup>, with Gushtâsp’s accession; Book III, on fol. 368<sup>b</sup>, with the story of Farâmurz. No date.</p> <p>No. 3263, olim 11. J. 2, ff. 456, 4 coll., each ll. 25-31; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each book; pictures (some of which are full-sized) on ff. 47<sup>b</sup>, 76<sup>a</sup>, 89<sup>b</sup>, 113<sup>a</sup>, 130<sup>b</sup>, 149<sup>b</sup>, 155<sup>a</sup>, 196<sup>b</sup>, 212<sup>b</sup>, 216<sup>b</sup>, 241<sup>b</sup>, 255<sup>b</sup>, 288<sup>b</sup>, 318<sup>a</sup>, 322<sup>b</sup>, 326<sup>b</sup>, 330<sup>b</sup>, 334<sup>b</sup>, 343<sup>b</sup>, 353<sup>b</sup>, 356<sup>b</sup>, and 398<sup>b</sup> ; size, 15<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 10<sup>1/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 301] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 873 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 301 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>873</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>The same preface as in the preceding copy: حمد و ستايش مر خدايرا الخ, with the short genealogical account at the end. The first 6<sup>1/2</sup> lines of this preface are repeated on ff. 6<sup>b</sup> and 7<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>Beginning of the poem, on fol. 7<sup>b</sup>. No subdivision into books; the copy is slightly injured in several places, especially towards the end.</p> <p>Dated by Âdîna of Bukhârâ, A.H. 1008, the 10th of Sha’bân (A.D. 1600, February 25), at Samarḳand.</p> <p>No. 301, ff. 375, 4 coll., each ll. 35; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; vignettes on ff. 1<sup>a</sup> and 6<sup>a</sup>; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1<sup>b</sup> and 7<sup>b</sup>; ff. 6<sup>b</sup> and 7<sup>a</sup> splendidly embellished; pictures on ff. 51<sup>b</sup>, 52<sup>b</sup>, 68<sup>a</sup>, 73<sup>a</sup>, 91<sup>b</sup>, 97<sup>a</sup>, 100<sup>a</sup>, 103<sup>b</sup>, 122<sup>a</sup>, 135<sup>b</sup>, 136<sup>b</sup>, 142<sup>a</sup>, 169<sup>b</sup>, 185<sup>b</sup>, 186<sup>a</sup>, 192<sup>a</sup>, 223<sup>a</sup>, 229<sup>a</sup>, 237<sup>b</sup>, 247<sup>a</sup>, 269<sup>b</sup>, 281<sup>b</sup>, 297<sup>a</sup>, 349<sup>a</sup>, and 370<sup>b</sup>; size, 14<sup>1/4 </sup>in. by 9 in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 341] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 869 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 341 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>869</p> <p>A slightly defective copy of the same.</p> <p>The Bâisungharî preface breaks off on fol. 10<sup>b</sup>, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 10, through which also the beginning of the poem is missing. The last words of the preface correspond to No. 3259 (865 in this Cat.), fol. 8<sup>b</sup>, l. 5. Middle; the first words of the poem, on fol. 11<sup>a</sup>, يكى آتشى بر شده تابناك, to fol. 10<sup>b</sup>, l. 7, on the margin of the same copy. The poem is divided into <em>four books</em>; Book II begins, on fol. 201<sup>b</sup>, with the story of Bizhan (بيژن); Book III, on fol. 310<sup>b</sup>, with Luhrâsp’s accession; Book IV, on fol. 470<sup>b</sup>, with the reign of Nûshirwân. All the larger headings are left blank throughout; some smaller blanks besides. Ff. 586-589 are turned upside down. This defective copy, somewhat injured in the beginning too, was finished in the month Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 987 (A.D. 1580, January-February).</p> <p>No. 341, ff. 596, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages embellished; size, 11<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 7<sup>3/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 741] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 867 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 741 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>867</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>An extremely splendid and magnificent copy of the Shâhnâma, in two volumes, with a beautiful eastern binding; written by Hidâyat-allâh of Shirâz, but not dated.</p> <p>The Bâisungharî preface begins here, on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>, thus:</p> <p>اى در صف اهل نظم استاد سخن</p> <p>شد تازه و محكم از تو بنياد سُخن</p> <p>فردوس مقام بادت اى فردوسى</p> <p>انصاف كه نيك دادۀ داد سخن׳</p> <p>افتتاح سخن آن به كه كند اهل كمال الخ</p> <p>The full text of the satire against Sulṭân Maḥmûd is found here on fol. 9<sup>b</sup> sq.</p> <p>Beginning of the <em>first volume,</em> on fol. 13<sup>b</sup>; of the <em>second volume</em>, on fol. 344<sup>b</sup>, with Luhrâsp’s accession:</p> <p>چو لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت عاج الخ</p> <p>Nos. 741 and 742, ff. 668, 4 coll., each ll. 25; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 2<sup>b</sup>, 13<sup>b</sup>, and 344<sup>b</sup>; the whole copy luxuriously embellished throughout: full-size pictures on ff. 1<sup>b</sup>, 2<sup>a</sup>, 40<sup>a</sup>, 94<sup>b</sup>, 140<sup>b</sup>, 185<sup>b</sup>, 215<sup>a</sup>, 232<sup>a</sup>, 252<sup>b</sup>, 326<sup>a</sup>, 355<sup>b</sup>, 385<sup>b</sup>, 412<sup>b</sup>, and 529<sup>b</sup>; size, 16 in. by 10 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3255] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 866 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3255 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>866</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>The Bâisungharî preface, on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 15<sup>b</sup>. No subdivision into books. This copy was made for J. H. Peile, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service (مستر پيل صاحب بهادر والا مناقب), at Seringapatan (سرنگ پتن در سلطنت انگريز), and is dated A.H. 1220, the 26th of Muḥarram (A.D. 1805, April 26). It was presented by Mr. Peile to the Library on the 19th of September, 1818.</p> <p>No. 3255, olim 11. J. 3, ff. 542, 4 coll., each ll. 21; large and clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1<sup>b</sup> and 15<sup>b</sup>; size, 14½ in. by 8¾ in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 276] گرشاسپ نامه
<ul> <li><strong>Garshâspnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 893 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 276 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>f. <em>Initiations of the Shâhnâma.</em></p> <p>893</p> <p>Garshâspnâma ( گرشاسپ نامه).</p> <p>The exploits of Garshâsp, prince of Sistân and ancestor of the chief hero of Firdausî’s poem, Rustam, the oldest epopee composed in imitation of the Shâhnâma, and generally ascribed to the poet Asadî, Firdausî’s teacher; but since all the copies of this rather rare mathnawî give unanimously as date of completion A.H. 458 (A.D. 1066), see here fol. 284<sup>a</sup>, l. 16, and old Asadi died in the reign of Sulṭân Mas’ûd bin Maḥmûd (A.H. 421-432=A.D. 1030-1040), i.e. at least twenty-six or twenty-seven years <em>before</em> the composition of the Garshâspnâma, the latter must needs be the work of a later author, who most likely was ‘Alî bin Aḥmad al-Asadî al-Ṭûsi, with the two Kunyas Abû-alḥasan .and. Abû-almanṣûr, the son of the older Asadî; see on this intricate question Dr. Ethé, ‘Ueber persische Tenzonen,’ in ’Abhandlungen des fünften Internationalen Orientalisten-Congresses zu Berlin, 1881; ‘Zweiter Theil, erste Hälfte, p. 64 sq., and the Bodleian Cat., Nos. 507 and 508; comp. also Rieu iii. p. 1088<sup>b</sup>; Mohl’s préface to the ‘Livre des rois,’ and Turner Macan’s edition of the Shâhnâma, vol. iv, appendix, pp. 2109-2133, where a portion of the text of the Garshâspnâma is published. Besides the two Bodleian copies and the Paris copy there are also recently four new ones added to the collection of the British Museum (Or. 2780, 2878, 2926, and 2976).</p> <p>Beginning of the poem:</p> <p>سپاس از خدا ايزد رهنماى</p> <p>كه از كاف و نون كرد گيتى بناى</p> <p>According to the last verse but one it contains 9000 baits (see the same statement in Elliott 141 of the Bodleian Library, whereas Elliott 140 of the same collection gives 10,000). Copied A.H. 1003 (A.D. 1594, 1595). This copy is in a very precarious state; many leaves are extremely injured and damaged by worms; there are besides many small blanks and omissions.</p> <p>Some leaves are misplaced, but as most of the catchwords are missing, we can set right only ff. 168-177, the proper order of which is: 168, 176, 170-175, 169, and 177.</p> <p><br> </p> <p>No. 276, ff. 285, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8½ in. by 4¼ in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 66] منتخب شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Muntakhab</strong><strong>-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 887 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 66 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>887</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Beginning: حمد بيغايت و ثناى بينهايت مر حضرت كبرياى واجب الوجود را كه جناب قدسئ جلالش از ادراك الخ.</p> <p>Dated the 5th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1186 (A.D. 1772, September 3); the right order of ff. 283-286 is: 283, 285, 284 and 286.</p> <p>No. 66, ff. 304, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8<sup>1/4</sup> in. by 5<sup>1/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3254] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 880 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3254 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>880</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Good copy, slightly injured in several places. No subdivision; no date.</p> <p> </p> <p>No. 3254, olim 11. J. 4, ff. 371, 4 coll., each ll. 25; the first two pages luxuriously adorned; pictures on ff. 29<sup>b</sup>, 37<sup>b</sup>, 40<sup>b</sup>, 75<sup>b</sup>, 89<sup>b</sup>, 98<sup>b</sup>, 110<sup>a</sup>, 116<sup>b</sup>, 130<sup>b</sup>, 138<sup>b</sup>, 145<sup>b</sup>, 150<sup>b</sup>, 168<sup>b</sup>, 172<sup>a</sup>, 176<sup>a</sup>, 182<sup>b</sup>, 187<sup>b</sup>, 192<sup>a</sup>, 198<sup>a</sup>, 199<sup>b</sup>, 202<sup>a</sup>, 205<sup>a</sup>, 211<sup>b</sup>, 216<sup>b</sup>, 218<sup>a</sup>, 225<sup>a</sup>, 230<sup>b</sup>, 231<sup>a</sup>, 233<sup>b</sup>, 243<sup>b</sup>, 252<sup>b</sup>, 255<sup>b</sup>, 260<sup>b</sup>, 270<sup>b</sup>, 272<sup>a</sup>, 274<sup>a</sup>, 281<sup>a</sup>, 284<sup>a</sup>, 288<sup>a</sup>, 292<sup>a</sup>, 294<sup>a</sup>, 295<sup>a</sup>, 300<sup>a</sup>, 317<sup>a</sup>, 324<sup>b</sup>, 341<sup>a</sup>, 343<sup>a</sup>, 347<sup>b</sup>, and 359<sup>b</sup>; size, 12<sup>7/8</sup> in. by 8 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 92] منتخب شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Muntakhab</strong><strong>-i-Shâhnâma.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 890 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 92 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>890</p> <p>A defective copy of the same.</p> <p>Some leaves are missing at the beginning of this copy; the first words, on fol. 1<sup>a</sup> بزرگى و دينار و افسر دهد الخ, correspond to No. 175 (886 in this Cat.), fol. 3<sup>a</sup>, l. 10 second hemistich. No date. On the fly-leaf the incorrect title, محمود نامه تصنيف فردوسى, is given to this work.</p> <p>No. 92, ff. 198, ll. 14-20; written very unequally and sometimes almost illegibly by different hands in various kinds of Nasta’lîḳ and Shikasta; size, 9 in. by 5 in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 133] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 863 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 133 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p><em>b. Copies of the Shâhnâma with the Bâisungharî preface. </em></p> <p>863</p> <p>Shâhnâma.</p> <p>The Bâisungharî 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 Bâisunghari recension, the excellent remarks of M. James Darmesteter in the ‘Revue Critique,’ October 20, 1890, pp. 215 and 216), on ff. 1<sup>b</sup>-13<sup>b</sup>, beginning : افتتاح سخن آن به كه كنند اهل كمال الخ. At the end: تمّت الديباجة الموسومة ببايسنغرى’</p> <p>This preface is designated by Mohl as ‘préface No. 1,’ and is printed with a few omissions in Macan’s Introduction to the Shâhnâma, pp. 11-61.</p> <p>Beginning of the poem, on fol. 13<sup>b</sup>: بنام خداوند جان و خرد الخ.</p> <p>The Shâhnâma is divided into two parts, the <em>second</em> of which begins with Lurâsp’s reign (headed: كتاب لهراسپ نامه), on fol. 270<sup>b</sup>: چو لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت داد الخ. This splendid copy was made by Ḥasan bin Muḥamamd Aḥsan and finished at Shîrâz the 18th of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 967 (A.D. 1560, August 10); it was given as a present to Ḳâsimbeg the 1st of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 971 (A.D. 1564, July 11), according to a note on fol. 1<sup>a</sup>.</p> <p>No. 133, ff. 538, 4 coll., each ll. 25; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 1<sup>b</sup> and 2<sup>a</sup> gorgeously illuminated in gold and blue arabesques, mixed with a variety of other colours; similar illuminations and an excellent frontispiece on ff. 270<sup>b</sup> and 271<sup>a</sup>; all the headings throughout neatly embellished; well-executed pictures on ff. 5<sup>b</sup>, 16<sup>b</sup>, 32<sup>a</sup>, 54<sup>a</sup>, 76<sup>b</sup>, 96<sup>a</sup>, 113<sup>b</sup>, 127<sup>b</sup>, 150<sup>b</sup>, 184<sup>b</sup>, 203<sup>a</sup>, 227<sup>b</sup>, 250<sup>a</sup>, 270<sup>b</sup>, 271<sup>a</sup>, 304<sup>a</sup>, 321<sup>b</sup>, 349<sup>b</sup>, 372<sup>a</sup>, 389<sup>a</sup>, 418<sup>b</sup>, 445<sup>b</sup>, 483<sup>a</sup>, and 519<sup>a</sup>; size, 14<sup>3/4</sup> in. by 8<sup>3/4</sup> in.</p> <p> </p>
[IO Islamic 3267] شاهنامه
<ul> <li><strong>Shâhnâma</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 862 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 3267 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>862</p> <p>Another copy of the <em>first half</em> of the poem.</p> <p>This copy, with the older preface on fol. 1<sup>b</sup>, contains only the <em>first half</em>, respectively the <em>first two books</em> of the Shâhnâma; Book I begins on fol. 8<sup>b</sup>, Book II on fol. 163<sup>b</sup>; the first goes down to Afrâsiyâb’s hearing of the flight of the Irânians; the second to Arjâsp’s death by the hand of Isfandiyâr. All the rest of the poem is wanting. No date. The copyist was Muḥammad Fâḍil, known as ادها بنى اسرائيل كولوى. A few various readings on the margin.</p> <p>No. 3267, olim 11. J. 6, ff. 325, 4 coll., each ll. 25; good and clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11<sup>3/8</sup> in. by 6<sup>5/8</sup> in.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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