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[IO Islamic 1369] قصّۀ پرورتى و نرورتى

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣ-i-Parwartî u Narwartî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 855 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1369 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 855 Ḳiṣṣ-i-Parwartî u Narwartî ( قصّۀ پرورتى و نرورتى). The story of Narwartî and Parwartî, a Persian romance by Lâla Ranjît, beginning: خداوندا اساس كاخ تكوين و ايجاد بطرحى كه صورت ظهور يافته الخ. No date. Purchased at Ḥaidarâbâd. No. 1369, ff. 42, ll. 19; Shikasta; size, 81/4 in. by 6 in.

[IO Islamic 1741] حكايت دزد و قاضى

<ul> <li>Ḥikâyat-i-duzd u ḳâḍî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 857 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1741 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 857 Ḥikâyat-i-duzd u ḳâḍî (حكايت دزد و قاضى). The humorous story of the thief and the judge, edited at Ṭahrân, 1845; comp. Bodleian Cat., Nos. 490 and 491; Rieu ii. p. 773b; W. Pertsch, p. 26, and Berlin Cat., p. 117 (No. 6). Beginning: روايت كرده اند راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار كه در زمان پادشاه عادل يكى از خلفاء بغداد و در عهد آن خليفه عالمى بود بغايتى فاضل و كامل و دانشمند الخ. No date. No. 1741, ff. 1-10, ll. 13-16; Shikasta; size, 81/4 in. by 57/8 in.

[IO Islamic 910] قصّۀ تميم انصارى

<ul> <li>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Tamîm Anṣârî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 858 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 910 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 858 Ḳiṣṣa-i-Tamîm Anṣârî (قصّۀ تميم انصارى). The story of Ḥaḍrat Tamîm Anṣârî, who lived under the Khalîf ‘Umar, beginning: در خبرست از سرور كائنات فرموده اند كه بعد از خود عجائبهاى بسيار پیدا خواهد شد اوّل از حضرت تميم انصارى بود كه در وقت خلافت حضرت عمر روزى نماز گذارده نشسته بودند الخ In the following copy it is ascribed to ‘Alî Muḥammad. Copied for Mr. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4085990">Richard Johnson</a>, by Muḥammad Rafi’. No. 910, ff. 23, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¾ in. by 6 in. <ul> <li>[ed note: Hazrat Tamim bin Ya‘ar Ansari (حضرت تَمیم بن یَعَار انصاریؓ) belonged to the branch of Banu Jadara bin ‘Auf bin Al-Harith of the Ansar tribe of the Khazraj. He participated alongside the Prophet in the battles of Badr and Uhud. A son by the name of Rib‘i and a daughter by the name of Jamila were among his children. His mother belonged to the tribe of Banu Amr. Ibn Sa'd, Muhammad ibn Mani' al-Hashimi al-Basri, Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubra, 1st edition, ed. Muhammad Abd al-Qadir Ata (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-'Ilmiyyah, 1990), 3: 407. In India, aspects of the story of Tamim Ansari appear to have been conflated with Hazrat Tamim ibn Zayd Ansari (تميم بن زيد الأنصاري&lrm;&lrm;) whose tomb is found at Kovalam, Tamil Nadu.</li> </ul>

[IO Islamic 3053] Collection of Tales and Historical Sketches

<ul> <li>Collection of Tales.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 859 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3053 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 859 Collection of tales and historical sketches. This copy contains: A main part on ff. 1a-70a, consisting of – 1. Ff. 1a-16a : Ḳiṣṣ-i-Tamîm Anṣârî, identical with that in the <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7372420">preceding copy</a>, but styled on the fly-leaf عمرنامه, or ‘story of a woman soliciting justice of the Khalîfa ‘Umar,’ by ‘Alî Muḥammad. Beginning, on fol. 1a: اندر خبر آورده اند كه در وقت امير المؤمنين عمر خطّاب رضى الله عنه روزى امير المؤمنين رضى الله عنه نماز بامداد گذارده بود الخ 2. Ff. 17a-63a: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakhtiyar-nama">Bakhtyârnâma</a>, in a similar redaction as No. 475, 3, in the Bodleian Cat. (col. 436), but divided into ten bâbs, like the enlarged version, No. 476, 1, in the same Cat. It was edited by <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88140888/">Sir W. Ouseley</a>, text and translation, London, 1801. Beginning, on fol. 17a: الحمد لله .... بدانكه اين كتاب يادگار پادشاهان است و بختيارنامه كه فاضلان تصنيف كرده اند تا طالبان را و خوانندگانرا پند حاصل آيد و اين مختصر بر ده باب است و در هربابى حكمتها گفته است آغاز داستان بختيار نامه اين است چنین روایت ميكنند كه در ديار عجم پادشاه بود با داد و عدل و شكوه الخ 3. Ff. 64a-70a: Fatḥnâma, that is, Sulṭân Muḥammad III’s campaign against Hungary in A.H. 1005 (A.D. 1596, 1597), identical with the ‘Fatḥnâma-i-Khûnkâr-i-Rûm’ in No. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3840325">572</a> above [=IO Islamic 2469]. It is translated from Turkish, see the title here: ترجمۀ فتحنامۀ حضرت بادينى پناه و شاه خونكار روم كه بتركى نوشته الخ Beginning: الحمد لمن لا نصر الاّ من عنده و الصلوة و السّلام على حبيبه الخ A date (probably of composition) appears at the end A.H. 1012 (A.D. 1603, 1604). B. An appendix, by two different hands, on ff. 71a-79a, consisting of – 4. Ff. 71a-77a: Account of the district of اودگير Ûdgir, that is, Oodgherry in Telingana. 5. Ff.78a-79a: A short account of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhondia_Wagh">Dhundia Wâgh</a>, or as he is called here, Dhûndûjî Wâgh (دهوندوجى واگه), the famous freebooter of Mysore, who was at last subjugated and killed by the English in 1800, see <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80020579/">Beale</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3342520">Oriental Biogr. Dict</a>., p. 81. No. 3053, ff. 79, ll. 13 (on ff. 71-77, ll. 9-10); written by three different hands, the greater part in Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; size, 8 in. by 53/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2556] Story fragment (كه نام او چيرمان)

<ul> <li>Story.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 856 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2556 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 856 A short fragment of a story of an Indian Râjah (كه نام او چيرمان) in Calicut ( كلى كوتَ), at the time of the prophet Muḥammad, Beginning: چنين روايت ميكنند كه در ايّام پيغمبر محمّد رسول الله كه در سرحد كلى كوتَ الخ Bibliotheca <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no91006101/">Leydeniana</a>. No. 2556, ff. 92-95, ll. 8; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 91/4 in. by 65/8 in.

[IO Islamic 2557] خاورنامه

<ul> <li>Khâwarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 896 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2557 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 896 Khâwarnâma (خاورنامه). The exploits of ‘Alî and his companions, a mathnawî composed in imitation of the Shâhnâma by Muḥammad bin Ḥusâm-aldin of Khûsaf in Ḳuhistân, usually called Ibn Ḥusâm, with the epithet of فردوسئ ثانى ‘the second Firdausî,’ A.H. 830 (A.D. 1427), see fol. 183a, l. 8. It is generally styled خاورنامه, but the poet himself calls it here (fol. 183a, l. 9) خاوراننامه. According to the colophon it is also sometimes designated by the simple title شاهنامه ; compare Bodleian Cat., No. 512; Rieu ii. p. 642; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 432; G. Flϋgel ii. p. 450, and Haft Iḳlîm, No. 826 (col. 437 in this Cat.). The poet died A.H. 875 (A.D. 1470) according to Taḳî Kâshî (other, less correct, dates are A.H. 892, see Ḥ. Khalfa iii. p. 129, and 893, see Ḥabib-alsiyar, vol. iii. Juz 3, p. 336). The introduction, found in the Bodleian copy, is missing in all the copies of this collection. Beginning of the poem: نخستين برين نامۀ دلگشاى سخن نقش بستم بنام خداى Dated A.H. 965, month of Jumâdâ-alawwal (A.D. 1558, February-March), by Maḥmûd bin ‘Abd-alraḥmân. Worm-eaten in many places. Bibliotheca Leydeniana. A translation of this epopee in Dakhnî verses was made by a poet with the takhalluṣ Rustamî, who excelled both in Persian and Dakhnî poetry, for Khadîjah Sulṭân Shahrbânû, the sister of Sulṭân ‘Abdallâh Ḳuṭbshâh (who ascended the throne of Gulkundah A.H. 1035=A.D. 1626, see No. 464 in this Cat.), the wife of Abû Manṣûr Sulṭân Muḥammad ‘Âdilshâh bin Ibrâhîmshâh (who reigned A.H. 1037-1067, A.D. 1627-1656, see Nos. 454 and 455 in this Cat.), and the mother of Manṣûr Bakhtiyâr (a copy of this translation with gorgeous illustrations is preserved in No. 834 of the India Office Collection). No. 2557, ff. 184, 4 centre-coll., each ll. 20 (except ff. 1 and 2, with ll. 25 in a page), and from fol. 3a on a fifth column on the margin, ll. 44; Nasta’lîḳ, by three different hands; size, 103/4 in. by 67/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3089] فتوح السلاطين

<ul> <li>Futûḥ-alsalâṭîn.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 895 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3089 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 895 Futûḥ-alsalâṭîn (فتوح السلاطين). A poetical history of the rulers of India from the rise of the Ghaznawide dynasty to A.H. 750 (A.D. 1349, 1350), the date of this composition (see fol. 333a, l. 8), by ‘Iṣâmî (عصامى), see fol. 21b, l. 3 ab infra; fol. 25a, l. 7; fol. 331b, l. 13 and the colophon. This imitation of Firdausî’s Shâhnâma, which is styled فتوح السلاطين (see fol. 331b, l. 4) and is mentioned by the author of the Ṭabaḳât-i-Akbarî as one of his authorities (compare Rieu i. p. 220), was dedicated by the poet, who is probably identical with Khwâjah ‘Abd Malik ‘Iṣâmî, mentioned by A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 81, to ‘Alâ-aldunyah wa aldîn Abû al-Mużaffar Bahmanshâh Sulṭân (see fol. 18a sq.), that is, ‘Alâ-aldîn Ḥasan, the first Bahmanî king of the Dakhan, who , according to the statement here, assumed sovereignty in A.H. 748=A.D. 1347 (see fol. 299a, but compare No. 449 in this Cat.). A complete index of the contents is given on ff. 1-13. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 14b: بنام خداوند هر دو جهان كنند ابتدا نامه كار آگهان A short account of the old Persian kings, on fol. 27a. Rise of Islâm and story of Muḥammad, on fol. 28b. Rise of Ghaznawide dynasty, on fol. 29a. General account of Indian rulers, on fol. 30a. Beginning of the main portion of the poem with the birth of Sulṭân Maḥmûd and reign of his successors, on fol. 46a sq. History of the house of Ghûr, on fol. 58a sq. ; followed in a more detailed manner by that of the Slave kings, the house of Khiljî, and the house of Tughluḳ. Beginning of ‘Alâ-aldin Ḥasan Bahmanî’s reign, on fol. 299a. Many pages are spoiled by worms; half of fol. 267 is torn away, half of fol. 327 left blank, and parts of verses occasionally omitted. No date. Tenth century of the Hijrah. This copy belonged formerly to Charl. Boddam (Calcutta, May 1st). No. 3089, ff. 333, 2 coll., each ll. 19; small but distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 71/4 in. by 45/8 in.

[IO Islamic 628] جهانگيرنامه

<ul> <li>Jahângîrnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 894 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 628 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 894 Jahângîrnâma (جهانگيرنامه) Another of the older imitations of the Shâhnâma, by an anonymous author, celebrating the life and adventures of Rustam’s son Jahângîr, who, like his unfortunate brother Suhrâb, engages in a fight with his father, without knowing him, until at last father and son recognize each other. Beginning: كنون باز كردم نگار سخن – بگويم حديث جهان كهن On fol. 1b the poem is styled: آغاز داستان جهانگير بن رستم نامه كه منتخب شاهنامه است. Very probably it is found like the Garshâspnâma, the Sâmnâma and others, interpolated in some copies of the Shâhnâma. Dated A.H. 1112, 29th of Dhû-alḥijjah (A.D. 1701, June 6), at Akbarâbâd. No. 628, ff. 166, 2 coll., each ll. 16-32, written very unequally in different kinds of Shikasta; size, 9 in. by 51/8 in.

[IO Islamic 117] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 889 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 117 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 889 The same. The beginning of this copy differs in the first four and a half lines from the usual text:ستايش و نيايش مر حضرت قادرى بيچون را سزد که عالم گوناگون را از پردۀ كتم الخ, but from the fifth line onwards it agrees verbatim with that of the preceding copies: .... كه امارت و ايالت پناه حشمت واجلال الخ, corresponding to fol. 2a, l. 7 sq. in No. 175 (886 in this Cat.). Author׳s name and date of composition are missing in this preface, but the governor’s name, Shamshîrkhân, and the title, تأريخ دلگشاى شمشيرخانى, appear here on ff. 1b, last line, 2a, first line, and 2b, last line. No date. The copy was transcribed by Ḥâfiż Yâr Muḥammad and Ḥâfiż Muḥammad Murâd. No. 117. Ff. 302, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ, all the margins throughout embellished with gold arabesques; size, 81/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 119] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 881 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 119 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 881 An incomplete copy of the same. This copy breaks off in the story of Khusrau Parwîz; The last verse: پراگنده شد لشكر شهريار سيه گشت روز و تبه گشت كار Corresponds to fol. 576b, first line, in No. 118 (861 in this Cat.). Many small injuries throughout. No. 119, ff. 554, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; a vignette on fol. 1a; ff. 1b and 2a luxuriously illuminated; at the beginning and end of the MS. two large pictures; size, 133/4 in. by 81/2 in.

[IO Islamic 1798] گنجنامه در حلّ لغات شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Ganjnâma dar ḥall-i-lughât-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 891 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1798 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 891 Ganjnâma dar ḥall-i-lughât-i-Shâhnâma ( گنجنامه در حلّ لغات شاهنامه). A special dictionary for Firdausî’s Shâhnâma, compiled at the request of Riḍâ Ḳulîbeg, with the epithet Niknâmkhân (see fol. 3a, ll. 8 and 9), by ‘Alî almakkî Ibn Ṭaifûr albisṭâmî (see fol. 3b, l. 10), and completed the 7th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 1079 (A.D. 1668, November 12). It is arranged alphabetically according to the first and second letters, and begins on fol. 9a with آباد. An introduction or آغاز precedes the dictionary, and is subdivided into the following three paragraphs ( مضمون): 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. 4b. 2.در تعداد زبان پارسى كه چند است, on fol. 5b. 3.در بيان فضيلت ابناى پارس و فصحات زبان پارسی, on fol. 7a. Beginning (as in Firdausî’s poem): بنام خداوند جان و خرد – كزين برتر انديشه در نگذرد 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.’ No. 1798, ff. 205, ll. 15; Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece; size, 111/4 in. by 65/8 in.

[IO Islamic 1990] فهرست شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Fihrist-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 892 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1990 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 892 Fihrist-i-Shâhnâma ( فهرست شاهنامه). 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. It opens with a rubâ’i, beginning thus: اين نامه بشاهنامه انداخته است الخ This copy is defective, going down only to the end of Kaikhusrau’s reign. Copied A.H. 1166 (A.D. 1753), according to a note on fol. 1a. No. 1990, ff. 22, 2 coll., each ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ, much damaged and many lines almost effaced; size, 81/2 in. by 45/8 in.

[IO Islamic 175] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 886 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 175 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 886 The same. Beginning:حمد بيغايت و ثناى بينهايت مر حضرت كبرياى واجب الوجود ربوبيّت جلالش از ادراك افهام الخ. The date of composition is here (on fol. 1b, 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. 3a, first line. Copied in the fifth year of Shah ‘Âlam’s reign (=A.H. 1177, A.D. 1763, 1764). No. 175, ff. 296, ll. 16; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 115/8 in. by 61/2 in.

[IO Islamic 3227] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 888 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3227 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 888 The same. 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. 195a, 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. No. 3227, ff. 198, ll. 17; splendid Nasta’lîḳ; many blanks left, probably for the insertion of illustrations; size, 11 in. by 61/2 in.

[IO Islamic 1578] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 884 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 1578 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 884 Another copy of the same. 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. Beginning as in the preceding copy. The extracts end on fol. 215a and are followed on the remaining pages by the usual additions. No. 1578, ff. 219, ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 43/4 in.

[IO Islamic 2593] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 878 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2593 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 878 The same. This copy, which is not dated, is likewise divided into two halves, the first on ff. 1b-305b, the second beginning, on fol. 307b, with Gushtâsp’s accession: چو گشتاسپ را داد لهراسپ بخت فرود آمد از تخت وبر بست رخت 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. This copy contains the very rare epilogue, quoted in Rieu ii. p. 535a (see No.860 above), and beginning here: چو شد ایزدی ( اسپرى Rieu ) داستان بزرگ سخنهای آن خسروان بزرگ In which as date of completion for the Shâhnâma A.H. 389 (A.D. 999) is given: (read با) نهم سال هشتاد تا سيصدست. This copy was transcribed by Mahdî ‘Alî Kashmîrî; it may belong to the tenth century of the Hijrah. 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, 91/8 in. by 51/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3265] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 874 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3265 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 874 The same. The same preface. Beginning of the poem on fol. 6b. No subdivision into books. Many pages are rather effaced, others slightly injured at the inner corners. The date cannot be deciphered either; the copyist’s name was Ḥaidar Ḳulî of Harât. 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. 6b; large pictures on ff. 9b, 15b, 24b, 29a, 34a, 65b, 74b, 77b, 84a, 97b, 106b, 116a, 129a, 135b, 139a, 179a, 188b, 198a, 201a, 213b, 238b, 325a, 340a, 361a, 374b, 386b, 391b, 454a, 459a, 464b, 480b, 523b, 535a, 564a, 573b, 582b, 602a, 606b, and 609a; size, 147/8 in. by 9 in.

[IO Islamic 2755] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 883 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 2755 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 883 Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma ( منتخب شاهنامه). 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. Beginning:حمد بيغايت و ثناى بينهايت مر حضرت كبرياء واجب الوجودى را كه جناب قدسئ هويّت جلالش را از ادراك افهام الخ. The date of composition, viz. A.H. 1063 (26th year of Shâhjahân’s reign=A.D. 1653), appears here on fol. 1b, l. 3 ab infra; the name of the author on fol. 2a, l. 2, and that of the governor, Shamshîrkhân, on fol. 2a, l. 5. As title is given here, besides the منتخب شاهنامه, both on fol. 2b, 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. 168a-171b, 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. 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. 6b, ll. 7 and 8, and fol. 351a, 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). 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, 91/8 in. by 51/8 in.

[IO Islamic 3263] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 870 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 3263 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 870 Another more defective and incomplete copy of the same. A large lacuna in the Bâisungharî preface after fol. 2, corresponding to fol. 3a, l. 12-fol. 10b, 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. 5a. It consists here of three bâbs 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. 314b, with Gushtâsp’s accession; Book III, on fol. 368b, with the story of Farâmurz. No date. 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. 47b, 76a, 89b, 113a, 130b, 149b, 155a, 196b, 212b, 216b, 241b, 255b, 288b, 318a, 322b, 326b, 330b, 334b, 343b, 353b, 356b, and 398b ; size, 153/8 in. by 101/8 in.

[IO Islamic 301] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 873 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 301 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 873 The same. The same preface as in the preceding copy: حمد و ستايش مر خدايرا الخ, with the short genealogical account at the end. The first 61/2 lines of this preface are repeated on ff. 6b and 7a. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 7b. No subdivision into books; the copy is slightly injured in several places, especially towards the end. Dated by Âdîna of Bukhârâ, A.H. 1008, the 10th of Sha’bân (A.D. 1600, February 25), at Samarḳand. No. 301, ff. 375, 4 coll., each ll. 35; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; vignettes on ff. 1a and 6a; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 7b; ff. 6b and 7a splendidly embellished; pictures on ff. 51b, 52b, 68a, 73a, 91b, 97a, 100a, 103b, 122a, 135b, 136b, 142a, 169b, 185b, 186a, 192a, 223a, 229a, 237b, 247a, 269b, 281b, 297a, 349a, and 370b; size, 141/4 in. by 9 in.