[IO Islamic 175] منتخب شاهنامه

Muntakhab-i-Shâhnâma. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 886 in the India Office collections. [metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 175 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 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.

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