منتخب شاهنامه حكيم ابو قاسم فردوسى، عليه الرحمه و المغفره.

Colophon: Tammat al-kitāb bi-ʻawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb Kitāb-i Shāhnāmah guftār-i Firdawsī, navvara Allāh marqadahu tamām shūd, rūz-i panjshanbih 14 māh-i Jamādī al-Avval sanah-i 1027, bi-khaṭṭ-i faqīr-i haqīr Allāh Sayyid ʻAliʼ valad Sayyid Hāshim, ghafara Allāh z̲unūbahu va satara ʻuyūbah..

Contains three half page paintings for various battles and combat..

Folio 1b-92a..

Library of Congress Persian manuscript, 303/36A..

Manuscript..

Nastaʻliq; 25 lines in four columns in written aren 24 x 13.5 cm..

Newer Central Asian binding; olive green leather with embossed medallions, two in dark red; light red leather spine..

Paper; cream-colored laid paper; black ink; rubrication; pages in four colums within a blue-cream-gold-cream-gold border; few marginal notes and corrections; catchwords on rectos. text preceded by and introduction and table of contents (folios 1b-6b)..

Title from folio 7a..

Written in Iran, newer Central Asian binding..

Persian..

Selections from the Shāhnāmah of Firdawsī..

This manuscript from the early 17th century contains selections from the Shāhnāmeh (Book of kings), the epic-historical work of Persian literature composed at the end of the tenth century by the poet Abū al-Qāsim Firdawsī (940-1020). This beloved epic of pre-Islamic Persia (present-day Iran) was widely read in Persia, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. The manuscript contains three half-page paintings showing different battles. The text is preceded by an introduction and table of contents (folios 1b-6b) and is written in black ink in a nastaʻliq script. The pages are in four columns of 25 lines each within a blue-cream-gold-cream-gold border. Rubrication is used, and there are catchwords on the recto pages. A few notes and corrections have been made in the margins. The colophon states that the manuscript was completed on Jamādī al-Avval, 14, 1027 (May 9, 1618); the place of writing is not given. The binding, newer and of Central Asian origin, is olive-green leather with embossed medallions, two in dark red, with a light-red leather spine..