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[IO Islamic 341] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 869 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 341 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 869 A slightly defective copy of the same. The Bâisungharî preface breaks off on fol. 10b, 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. 8b, l. 5. Middle; the first words of the poem, on fol. 11a, يكى آتشى بر شده تابناك, to fol. 10b, l. 7, on the margin of the same copy. The poem is divided into four books; Book II begins, on fol. 201b, with the story of Bizhan (بيژن); Book III, on fol. 310b, with Luhrâsp’s accession; Book IV, on fol. 470b, 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). No. 341, ff. 596, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages embellished; size, 113/8 in. by 73/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 741] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 867 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 741 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 867 The same. 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. The Bâisungharî preface begins here, on fol. 2b, thus: اى در صف اهل نظم استاد سخن شد تازه و محكم از تو بنياد سُخن فردوس مقام بادت اى فردوسى انصاف كه نيك دادۀ داد سخن׳ افتتاح سخن آن به كه كند اهل كمال الخ The full text of the satire against Sulṭân Maḥmûd is found here on fol. 9b sq. Beginning of the first volume, on fol. 13b; of the second volume, on fol. 344b, with Luhrâsp’s accession: چو لهراسپ بنشست بر تخت عاج الخ Nos. 741 and 742, ff. 668, 4 coll., each ll. 25; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 2b, 13b, and 344b; the whole copy luxuriously embellished throughout: full-size pictures on ff. 1b, 2a, 40a, 94b, 140b, 185b, 215a, 232a, 252b, 326a, 355b, 385b, 412b, and 529b; size, 16 in. by 10 in.

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[IO Islamic 3255] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 866 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 3255 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 866 The same. The Bâisungharî preface, on fol. 1b. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 15b. 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. No. 3255, olim 11. J. 3, ff. 542, 4 coll., each ll. 21; large and clear Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 15b; size, 14½ in. by 8¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 276] گرشاسپ نامه

<ul> <li>Garshâspnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 893 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 276 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> f. Initiations of the Shâhnâma. 893 Garshâspnâma ( گرشاسپ نامه). 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. 284a, 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 before 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. 1088b; 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). Beginning of the poem: سپاس از خدا ايزد رهنماى كه از كاف و نون كرد گيتى بناى 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. 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.   No. 276, ff. 285, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8½ in. by 4¼ in.

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[IO Islamic 66] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 887 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 66 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 887 The same. Beginning: حمد بيغايت و ثناى بينهايت مر حضرت كبرياى واجب الوجود را كه جناب قدسئ جلالش از ادراك الخ. 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. No. 66, ff. 304, ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 81/4 in. by 51/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 3254] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 880 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 3254 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 880 The same. Good copy, slightly injured in several places. No subdivision; no date.   No. 3254, olim 11. J. 4, ff. 371, 4 coll., each ll. 25; the first two pages luxuriously adorned; pictures on ff. 29b, 37b, 40b, 75b, 89b, 98b, 110a, 116b, 130b, 138b, 145b, 150b, 168b, 172a, 176a, 182b, 187b, 192a, 198a, 199b, 202a, 205a, 211b, 216b, 218a, 225a, 230b, 231a, 233b, 243b, 252b, 255b, 260b, 270b, 272a, 274a, 281a, 284a, 288a, 292a, 294a, 295a, 300a, 317a, 324b, 341a, 343a, 347b, and 359b; size, 127/8 in. by 8 in.

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[IO Islamic 92] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 890 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 92 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 890 A defective copy of the same. Some leaves are missing at the beginning of this copy; the first words, on fol. 1a بزرگى و دينار و افسر دهد الخ, correspond to No. 175 (886 in this Cat.), fol. 3a, l. 10 second hemistich. No date. On the fly-leaf the incorrect title, محمود نامه تصنيف فردوسى, is given to this work. 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.

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[IO Islamic 133] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 863 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 133 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> b. Copies of the Shâhnâma with the Bâisungharî preface. 863 Shâhnâma. 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. 1b-13b, beginning : افتتاح سخن آن به كه كنند اهل كمال الخ. At the end: تمّت الديباجة الموسومة ببايسنغرى’ 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. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 13b: بنام خداوند جان و خرد الخ. The Shâhnâma is divided into two parts, the second of which begins with Lurâsp’s reign (headed: كتاب لهراسپ نامه), on fol. 270b: 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. 1a. No. 133, ff. 538, 4 coll., each ll. 25; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; ff. 1b and 2a gorgeously illuminated in gold and blue arabesques, mixed with a variety of other colours; similar illuminations and an excellent frontispiece on ff. 270b and 271a; all the headings throughout neatly embellished; well-executed pictures on ff. 5b, 16b, 32a, 54a, 76b, 96a, 113b, 127b, 150b, 184b, 203a, 227b, 250a, 270b, 271a, 304a, 321b, 349b, 372a, 389a, 418b, 445b, 483a, and 519a; size, 143/4 in. by 83/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 3267] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 862 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 3267 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 862 Another copy of the first half of the poem. This copy, with the older preface on fol. 1b, contains only the first half, respectively the first two books of the Shâhnâma; Book I begins on fol. 8b, Book II on fol. 163b; 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. No. 3267, olim 11. J. 6, ff. 325, 4 coll., each ll. 25; good and clear Nasta’lîḳ; size, 113/8 in. by 65/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 3259] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 865 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 3259  here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 865 The same. The Bâisungharî preface, on fol. 1a. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 10b. It is divided into four books, which agree in their contents entirely with those in the preceding copy, except that Books II and III (beginning on fol. 144b) are not separated here. Book IV begins on fol. 338b. Small blanks on many pages, apparently left for the insertion of headings or pictures. Book I (جلد اوّل) is dated A.H. 1111, the 16th of Ṣafar (called here the 44th year of ‘Âlamgîr’s reign)=A.D. 1699, August 13; Book IV, the 8th of Dhû-alḥijjah, in the same year=A.D. 1700, May 27, by Muḥammad Ḥiṣârî. The first two leaves are supplied by another hand, perhaps by Warren Hastings, whose name appears at the top of the preface. No. 3259, olim 11. J. 5, ff. 427, 4 coll. Each ll. 25, and a fifth on the margin, ll. 40; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 113/4 in. by 71/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 3340] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 864 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 3340 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 864 The same. The Bâisungharî preface begins here as in the preceding copy, and is concluded by a short chronological index and list of kings. Beginning of the poem, on fol. 12b. It is divided into four books; Book I ends with Rustam’s return from Turkistân and Afrâsiyâb’s flight; Book II, beginning on fol. 200b, with Gushtâsp’s accession; Book III, beginning on fol. 315b, goes down to the accession of Nûshirwân; and Book IV, beginning on fol. 461b, comprises the rest. Dated by Majd-aldîn bin Ibrâhîm Ḥâfiż, A.H. 1012, the 29th of Muḥarram (A.D. 1603, July 9). No. 3340, olim 11. J. 7, ff. 586, 4 coll., each ll. 25; small Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 12b; adorned headings on ff. 200b and 315b. Small pictures on ff. 15a, 15b, 17a, 19a, 24b, 42a, 48b, 50a, 55a, 65b, 73b, 77b, 92b, 106b, 120b, 134a, 149a, 156a, 158b, 164a, 180b, 190a, 198b, 200a, 212b, 214a, 243b, 254b, 267b, 279a, 280b, 296b, 297a, 315b, 325b, 332a, 332b, 333b, 334b, 337a, 353a, 355a, 358b, 370a, 371a, 377a, 385b, 388b, 393a, 395b, 399b, 410a, 418b, 420b, 422a, 424a, 425b, 429a, 435a, 439b, 460b, 489a, 494b, 516a, 534b, 552b, 561a, 563b, 572b, 576b, 583a, and 585b ; size, 85/8 in. by 43/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 966] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 876 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 966 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 876 The same. A beautiful copy, without any subdivision, dated A.H. 1012, 1st of Ramaḍân (A.D. 1604, February 2). No. 966, ff. 523, 4 coll., each ll. 25; clear ll. 25; clear Nasta’lîḳ; splendid frontispieces and other illuminations on ff. 1b and 2a; pictures on ff. 4b, 8b, 14b, 18a, 26a, 33b, 44a, 45a, 54b, 56a, 57a, 62a, 63a, 64b, 66a, 68b, 71a, 74a, 77b, 79a, 88a, 97a, 110a, 113b, 127b, 145a, 147a, 157b, 169b, 171b, 177b, 180a, 186b, 189a, 197b, 200b, 212b, 216a, 229a, 232b, 243b, 254a, 269a, 275a, 277a, 279a, 297a, 307a, 314b, 318b, 323b, 335a, 358a, 360b, 371b, 378b, 389a, 403b, 408a, 428b, 453b, 475a, and 505a; size, 141/2 in. by 91/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2564] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 877 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 2564 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 877 The same. Another good copy of the Shâhnâma, with excellent and numerous marginal notes and various readings, which give quite an exceptional value to it. It is divided into two daftars, the second of which begins, on fol. 271b, after Bahrâm’s death, with the struggle between Rustam and Kâmûs: بنام خداوند خورشيد و ماه كه دلرا بنامش خرد داد راه comp. No. 860 above, The first daftar was finished A.H. 1053, last of Muḥarram (A.D. 1643, April 20); the second, the 25th of Rabî’-alâkhar in the same year (A.D. 1643, July 13). Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2564, ff. 434, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 271b; fol. 136 partly effaced; size, 11½ in. by 7½ in.

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[IO Islamic 2361] منتخب شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 885 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 2361 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 885 The same. Beginning as usual. The title منتخب شاهنامه, appears on fol.2a, l. 9, but at the top of fol. 1a and in the colophon the book is designated as لبّ لباب منتخب شاهنامه or simply لبّ لباب. The extracts end on fol. 267b, followed by the usual additions. Dated by Muṭi’-allâh Ćishtî alrashîdi aljaunpûri, A.H. 1170, 9th of Shawwâl (A.D. 1757, June 27). From the library of Sir Charles Wilkins. No. 2361, ff. 274, ll. 15; Naskhî, mixed with Shikasta; worm-eaten throughout; size, 77/8 in. by 47/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 2118] شاهنامه

<ul> <li>Shâhnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 860 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 2118 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> B. POETRY. I.EPIC, LYRIC, AND DIDACTIC POETRY. Poets who died between A.H. 400 and 500. 1.Firdausî and Imitators (Nos. 860-901). a.Copies of the Shâhnâma with the older preface. 860 Shâhnâma (شاهنامه). Firdausî’s great epic poem, ‘the book of kings,’ in four books, preceded by the older preface, anterior to the so-called Bâisungharî recension, and designated by Mohl (i. p. xv) as prėface No. II;’ see Rieu ii. p. 534a; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 732 sq.; Bodleian Cat., No. 497; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 169; J. Aumer, p. 6 (where it is wrongly ascribed to Bâisunghar), etc. This preface has been translated by M. de Wallenbourg in his ‘Notice sur le Shahnamė,’ Vienna, 1810, and begins here, on fol. 1b: سپاس و آفرين مر خدايرا كه آن جهان و اين جهان الخ. First book (جلد اوّل) of the poem, on fol. 6b, beginning: بنام خداوند جان و خرد – كزين برتر انديشه بر نگذرد And going down to Bahrâm’s death. Second book (جلد دويم), on fol. 151b, beginning: بنام خداوند خورشيد و ماه – كه دلرا بنامش خرد داد راه And concluding with Isfandiyâr’s message of victory to his father Gushtâsp. Third book (جلد سوم), on fol. 290b, beginning: خداوند پيروزى و فرّهى – خداوند ديهم و شاهنشهى And ending with accession of Nûshirwân. Fourth book (جلد چهارم), on fol. 407b, beginning exactly as the second book and comprising the rest of the poem. Firdausî (Abû-alḳâsim Ḥasan or Manṣûr) was born about A.H. 321 or 322 (A.D. 933 or 934) in Shâdâb, near Ṭûs, completed the Shâhnâma, according to the usual statement, A.H. 400 (A.D. 1009, 1010), according to a rare epilogue, found only in one copy of the British Museum (Rieu. ii. p. 535a) and in No. 878 below, already A.H. 389 (A.D. 999), and according to some verses in the same copy of the British Museum, even as early as A.H. 384 (A.D. 994), and died A.H. 411 (A.D. 1020; other dates of his death are A.H. 416 =A.D. 1025, and A.H. 421=A.D. 1030); comp. on the poet’s biography and special incidents of his life, besides the Catalogues mentioned above, W. Pertsch, p. 68; G. Flügel i. p. 492 sq.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 405 sq.; Ouseley, Biogr. Notices, pp. 54-99; Ethé, Firdûsî als Lyriker, in Sitzungsberichte der bayr. Academic, philos-philol. Classe, 1872, pp. 275-304, and 1873, pp. 623-653; ‘A Sketch of the Life and Writings of Ferdusi,’ London, 1876; and Ethé, Die höfische und romantische Poesie der Perser, Hamburg, 1887, p. 25 sq. Best text editions by Turner Macan, in 4 vols., Calcutta, 1829 (of the earlier Calcutta edition of 1811, by Lumsden , only one volume has appeared), reproduced in the lithographed eastern texts of Bombay, 1849 and 1856, Cawnpore, 1874, Ṭahrân, A.H. 1245 and 1267, etc.; J. Mohl (with a complete prose translation in French), Paris, 1838-1878; and J.A. Vullers, Leyden, 1877-1884. Parts of the poem have been published in J. Atkinson’s Soohrab, a poem (Persian and English), Calcutta, 1814; Vullers, Chrestomathia Shahnamiana. Bonn, 1833; H.S. Jarrett, Selections from the Shah Namah, Calcutta, 1880; I. Pizzi, Antologia Firdusiana, second edition, Leipzig, 1891; in various Persian Chrestomathies, for instance, Spiegel (Leipzig, 1846), Pizzi (Manuale della lingua Persiana, Leipzig, 1883, and Chrestomathie Persane, Turin, 1889), and others, and in Salemann und Shukovski, Persische Grammatik, Berlin, 1889; compare also Zenker, No. 526 sq., and ii. 489 sq. Chief translations by Champion (the first eight books), 1788; St. Weston, Episodes from the Shah Nameh, 1815; J. Görres, Das Heldenbuch von Iran, 2 vols., Berlin, 1820; Starkenfels, Key-Kawns in Masenderan, Vienna, 1841; Fr. V. Schack, Heldensagen, third edition, 3 vols., Stuttgart, 1877; J. Mohl, Le livre des rois, traduit et commenté, publié par Mme. Mohl, Paris, 1876-1878; H. Zimmern, The Epic of Kings, London, 1882; S. Robinson, Persian Poetry for English Readers, 1883 (pp. 5-102); I. Pizzi, ll libro dei re, poema epico, in 8 vols., Turin, 1886-1888 (the only complete translation in verse that exists of Firdausî’s epopee in any European language, except the Turkish version of Sharîf, see Rieu, p. 152 sq.); Fr. Rϋckert, Firdosi’s Königshûch, aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von E. A. Bayer, Sage i-xiii, Berlin, 1890; and ‘Rostam und Suhrab’ im Nibelungenmass, ein Fragment mitgeteilt von E. Bayer in ‘Zeitschrift fϋr vergl. Litteraturgeschichte, etc.,’ Berlin, 1891, pp. 322-342. On the question of the origin of certain parts of the poem, see Nöldeke’s ‘Persische Studien II,’ Sitzungsberichte der kais. Acad. Der Wissenschaften in Wien, 1892, vol. 126. The present copy was transcribed by Muḥammad Ḥâfiż Ćishtî. Book I is dated A.H. 1007, first of Ramaḍân (A.D. 1599, March 28); Book II, A.H. 1007, the 18th of Shawwâl (A.D. 1599, May 14); Book III has no date; book IV is dated A.H. 1008, the 16th of Rajab (A.D. 1600, Febr. 1). Fol. 421 (٤٢٤ according to the Arabic paging) is left blank. Many small blanks besides. No. 2118, ff. 522, 4 coll., each ll. 25; small, but very neat and clear Nasta’lîḳ; splendid illuminations on the first two pages of each book ; size, 153/8 in. by 101/4 in.

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[IO Islamic 2486] خاورنامه

<ul> <li>Khâwarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 899 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 2486 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 899 A short fragment of the same. Part of the episode of Gulandâm’s deliverance, from the Khâwarnâma, agreeing in substance, but not in wording, with fol. 118 sq. in No. 2557 (896 in this Cat.). It contains only six leaves and is incomplete at the end. Heading: ابن حسام گويد، رفتن فتّاح بطلب گل اندام و خلاص نمودن و يافتن اورا در آن كوه و مژده دادن ابو المعجن را،. Beginning: چو خورشيد بنهفت و بنمود ماه الخ. Last verse: بپرسیدش از گردش روزگار – سروشش شنيد حيدر نامدار Bibliotheca Leydeniana. No. 2486, ff. 195-200, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.

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[IO Islamic 658] خاورنامه

<ul> <li>Khâwarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 898 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 658 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 898 A defective copy of the same. Beginning as usual. No date. This copy is in a very bad state, worm-eaten and damaged in many places; there are besides several lacunas and misplaced leaves, for instance, the proper order of ff. 183-202 is: 183, 196, 197, 195, 201, 194, 200, 198, 199, 202; the intervening leaves 184-193 are not quite consecutive, 185-192 and 184 and 193 respectively belong together, but between both these series there are lacunas. No. 658, ff. 536, 2 coll., ll. 16-23; written very unequally by different hands in various styles of Nasta’lîḳ; size, 83/4 in. by 41/2 in.

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[IO Islamic 3443] خاورنامه

<ul> <li>Khâwarnâma.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 897 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 3443 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 897 Another copy of the same. This most magnificent copy of the Khâwarnâma is about 200 years old (undated) and illustrated with 156 gorgeous pictures, most of them nearly full-sized, in the richest variety of colours. Beginning as usual: نخستين برين نامۀ دلگشای سخن نقش بستم بنام خداى One leaf is missing between ff. 206 and 207 (the lacuna corresponding to fol. 104a, margin-column, l. 12 ab infra, to fol. 104b, margin-column, l. 5 in the preceding copy). On one of the fly-leaves at the end of the MS. a Persian note, written by ‘Alî Ibrâhîmkhân in 1789, gives the title and author’s name of this poem, fixes correctly his death in A.H. 875, in the reign of Shaikh ‘Umar Mîrzâ ibn Amîr Tîmûr, and alleges two peculiar reasons why it was styled خاورنامه, viz. (I) because خاوران is a place in Khurâsân, and the author, Ibn Ḥusâm, lived in Khurâsân, namely in Ḳuhistân; (2) because خاوران means ‘east and west’ (مشرق و مغرب), and the wonderful exploits of the hero of this poem are said to have taken place in the west (مغرب) ! He further states, that this poem is especially renowned in Iṣfahân and Khurâsân, although the stories related are devoid of historical truth, that it contains 23,735 baits and 157 illustrations on 362 folios. He adds, that it must have been copied for a king or Amîr. An English translation of this Persian note by H. T. Prinsep, Esq., is affixed to a fly-leaf in the beginning of the MS. Another English note, but by a different hand and without signature, is stuck to one of the fly-leaves at the end, and runs thus: ‘I am not skilful in ascertaining the age and value of a Persian manuscript, but I should think, as well from the handwriting as from the pictures, that this copy was made in the north Of India, and not in Persia, and that the artists were natives of India who have taken old Persian paintings for their-models. I should therefore place this MS. in the third or fourth rank as a mere work of art. But it appears, from the little that I have had time to look into, to be very correct, and the handwriting is very distinct, which give it additional value: and I have no doubt but it was made with great care and a vast expense. I know nothing of the character of the work; for this is the first copy I have ever met with: nor have I found any reference to the author in other works. He has used the measure and seems to have copied the style of Firdūsī in his celebrated Shâh-Nâmah, but I am not sufficiently acquainted with the two works to make any further comparison.’ No. 3443, ff. 361, 4 coll., each ll. 19; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; each column is separated from the other by a large gold stripe; splendid frontispieces on ff. 1b and 35b ; ff. 1b, 2a, 35b, and 36a richly illuminated; pictures on ff. 4a, 7a, 8a, 12a, 13a, 14b, 15b, 17b, 19b, 22b, 26a, 28a, 29a, 30b, 32b, 35a, 37a, 39a, 41a, 43a, 46a, 47b, 49a, 51b, 52b, 54b, 57b, 59b, 62b, 64b, 66b, 69b, 73a, 75a, 77a, 79b, 81a, 82b, 84a, 85b, 87a, 89a, 90b, 93a, 94b, 96b, 99a, 102a, 104b, 107b, 110a, 113b, 115b, 118a, 121a, 123b, 127a, 128b, 130b, 132b, 136a, 138a, 140b, 142a, 145a, 146b, 147b, 150a, 152b, 154b, 156b, 159a, 161a, 163a, 164b, 166b, 168a, 170a, 172b, 174b, 176a, 178a, 180a, 184b, 187a, 190a, 192b, 194b, 198b, 201b, 204a, 206a, 208a, 210a, 212a, 215a, 216b, 219a, 223b, 226b, 228a, 230a, 231b, 233b, 236b, 237b, 240b, 243a, 245a, 247a, 249a, 251b, 252b, 253b, 254b, 258a, 261a, 263a, 264a, 267a, 270a, 272b, 275a, 279a, 282a, 285b, 287a, 288b, 290a, 292b, 296a, 298b, 301b, 304a, 306b, 309a, 312b, 313b, 316b, 318b, 321b, 324a, 327a, 330a, 331b, 332b, 334a, 336b, 339a, 341a, 345a, 348a, 351b, 358a, 359a, and 361a; solid eastern binding; size, 133/4 in. by 105/8 in.

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[IO Islamic 139] حملۀ حيدرى

<ul> <li>Ḥamla-i-Ḥaidarî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 900 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 139 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 900 Ḥamla-i-Ḥaidarî (حملۀ حيدرى). Another imitation of the Shâhnâma, in the form of a poetical biography of Muḥammad and ‘Alî, a kind of rhymed paraphrase of Mu’în-almiskîn’s معارج النبوّة (Nos. 138-144 in this Cat.), by Muḥammad Rafi’khân, with the takhalluṣ Bâdhil, who died A.H. 1123 (A.D. 1711), but left the work unfinished, which was completed twelve years after, A.H. 1135 (A.D. 1723), by Najaf, who added an older poem on the same subject, by Sayyid Abû Ṭâlib of Iṣfahân, to the end of Bâdhil’s epopee, see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 390 (Khulâṣat-alkalâm, Nos. 9 and 10), 518 and 519; Rieu ii. p. 704; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 368; W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 533, and Mohl, préface to the ‘Livre des rois,’ p. lxxvii note. It must not be confounded with another quite modern epopee of the same title, حملۀ حيدرى, and in the same metre, composed by Mullâ Bamûn ‘Alî Kirmânî, with the takhalluṣ Râjî, A.H. 1220 (A.D. 1805), and lithographed in Bombay, A.H. 1264, etc.; see Rieu, loc. cit.; A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 540, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 534. According to the last-named Catal., the original work of Bâdhil was concluded in A.H. 1119 (A.D. 1707, 1708), after fifty years’ labour. It has been lithographed in Lucknow, A.H. 1267. The poem is divided here into two parts, the first beginning, on fol. 1b: بنام خداوند بسيار بخش خرد بخش و دين بخش و دينار بخش The second, on fol. 147b: بنام برآرندۀ كامها – از آغاز داناى انجامها The first heading in the second part is: داستان خيبر و وقائع سال هفتم و امر فرمودن سيّد كائنات مهيّا شدن لشكر اسلام را،. This copy is larger than Ouseley 357 in the Bodleian Library (Bodleian Cat., loc. cit.), the last chapter of that copy being found here on fol. 283b. Copied by Muḥammad A’żam bin Muḥammad Ṣâdiḳ. No date. No. 139, ff. 346, 4 coll., each ll. 20; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 147b; size, 12 in. by 7¼ in.

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[IO Islamic 132] ديوان ناصر خسرو

<ul> <li>Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-i-Khusrau.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 903 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 132 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 903 Dîwân-i-Nâṣir-i-Khusrau ( ديوان ناصر خسرو). The dîwân or rather one of the dîwâns of Abû Mu’în Nâṣir bin Khusrau, with the takhalluṣ Ḥujjat, who was born in Ḳubâdiyân near Balkh, A.H. 394, Dhû-alḳa’dah (A.D. 1004, August-September), and died in Yumgân A.H. 481 (A.D. 1088); see on the life and works of this truly wonderful man, whose real character has so long been shrouded in mystery, and whose very identity with the author of the Safarnâma has been hotly disputed until a very recent date, especially Fagnan, Note sur Nâçir ibn Khosrou (Journal Asiatique, vii série, tome 13, 1879, pp. 164-168); Rieu i. pp. 379-381, and iii. p. 1086b; Schefer, Sefer Nameh, Paris, 1881, Introduction; and Ethé, Nâṣir bin Khusraus Leben, Denken und Dichten (compare Haft Iḳlîm, No. 863, col. 441 in this Cat.), and Die mystische, didaktische und lyrische Poesie, etc. der Perser, Hamburg, 1888, pp. 13-19. Copies of this dîwân are described in A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 428; G. Flügel i. p. 496, and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 741; there are also two copies lately added to the British Museum Collection (Or. 2845 and 3323); large extracts are found in the Butkhâna (Bodleian Cat., No. 366, ff. 36b-66b), and a peculiar tasmîṭ in the Daḳâ’iḳ-alash’âr (ib., No. 1333, col. 802); a lithographed edition appeared in Tabrîz, A.H. 1280. Selections from Nâṣir’s dîwân, with German metrical translation, have been edited by Ethé in the Göttinger Nachrichten, 1882, pp. 124-152, and in the Zeitschrift der D. M. G., vol. 36, pp. 478-508; one poem of his has also been published by W. Shukowskij in Sapisski, iv. pp. 386-393, 1890. Other works of the poet are: (1) the Rûshanâ’înâma, see below, No. 904; (2) the Sa’âdatnâma (edited by Fagnan in the Zeitschrift, vol. 34, pp. 643-674; compare also Dr. Teufel’s critical remarks on it, ib., vol. 36, pp. 106-114); (3) the Safarnâma (edited with French translation and valuable notes by Schefer, Paris, 1881; see also A.R. Fuller in the Journal of the Roy. Asiat. Society, 1872, pp. 142-164; and Guy Le Strange, Nâṣir-i-Khusrau, Diary of a Journey through Syria and Palestine, London, Palest. Pilgrims’ Text Sec., 1888); (4) the Zâd-almusâfirîn (here styled in the very short biographical introduction زاد المسافر), which is in the private collection of M. Schefer (comp. his Chrestomathie Persane, vol. i, Paris, 1883, p. 182); (5 and 6) the كتاب وجه الدين and the كتاب دليل المتحيّرين (ib., p. ١٦١), neither of which seems to be extant now. Beginning of the present copy, on fol. 97b: خداوندى كه در وحدت قديمست از همه اشيا نه اندر وحدتش كثرت نه محدث را ازو تنها This dîwân, which forms the sixth and last part of a very old and precious collection of Persian dîwâns, formerly belonging to Shâh Isma’îl Ṣafawî and bearing his seal in many places (see W. Morley, p. 7, note 1), was copied A.H. 714 in Dhû-alḳâ’dah=A.D. 1315, February, by ‘Abd-almu’min al’alawî-alkâshî (the other five dîwâns are those of Amîr Mu’izzî, Athîr-aldîn Akhsîkatî, Adîb Ṣâbir, Niżâm-aldîn Maḥmûd Ḳamar Iṣfahânî, and Shams-aldîn Maḥmûd al-Ṭabasî). It is unfortunately greatly damaged in many places ad particularly towards the end. No. 132, ff. 97-112, 6 coll., each ll. 40; written in a very peculiar and striking style of Naskhî; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 97b, and a vignette on fol. 97a; miniature paintings of a rather funny character throughout; size, 15¾ in. by 11 in.

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