[IO Islamic 1651] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 979 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 1651 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 979 Niżâmî’s Khamsah without the second part of the Iskandarnâma. Contents: 1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. 2. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 28b. 3. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 81b. 4 Haft Paikar, on fol. 156b. 5. The first part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 212b. Good copy, dated A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639, 1640), by Abû-alḥasan ibn Zain-aldîn Muḥammad of Zindanan (a village near Bukhârâ), and presented to the Library by Lieut.-Col. W. Kirkpatrick, 30 May, 1864. No. 1651, ff. 291, 4 coll., each ll. 21; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; size, 115/8 in. by 71/4 in.