Shahnama Project : Shahnama

Firdausi

Shahnama Project

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>The colophon dates this ms. Samvat 1895.</p><p>The incipit on fol. 1v is normative, under an illuminated 'unvan in gold, pale blue, orange and pale green.</p><p>The copy has various lacunae, and is worm eaten along the spine, which is of plain brown leather.</p><p>Binding of brown leather, stamped with a central floral lozenge and two pendants, four corner pieces, margin of ruled and stamped chain design. At the time of inspection, the MS was disbound and the folios detached and very worm eaten. Paper thin, unburnished, with a lot of fibre, pale brown. Calligraphy not neat.</p><p>The outer margin is ruled in a single dark blue or black line; inner margins of thin blue/black, space, thin red, space, two thin black, thick gold, thin black.The inter-columnar rulings are two double red lines with blank space between.</p><p>The rubrics when available seem to have little to do with the scene of the picture, many of which have been deliberately spoiled and the figures sponged over. The pictures appear to be completely out of order.</p><p>Folio numbers and title are all extremely provisional, pending a detailed examination of the MS. The first report made by CM in 2008, in haste and incomplete; there are no pictures available at present.</p><p>See Gacek, Persian manuscripts in the libraries of McGill University (2005), p. 135 (no. 272).</p></p>