[IO Islamic 777] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 974 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 777 here with notations and hyperlinks].

974

The same.

Contents:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol.1b. 2. Shîrîn u Khusrau (so here شيرين و خسرو), on fol. 37b. 3. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 133b. 4. Haft Paikar, on fol. 201b. 5a. The first part of the Iskandarnâma, styled اقبالنامۀ سکندرى, on fol. 276b. 5b. The second part of the Iskandarnâma, styled خردنامۀ سكندرى and also شرفنامۀ نظامى.

Dated the 22nd of Rabî’-althânî, A.H. 1014 (A.D. 1605, Sept. 6). On fol. 1a the following note appears: ‘Khumseh Nezami given to R.J. by Mir aboo ali Khan, brother to Capun ali Kb.’

No. 777, ff. 428, 4 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; miniature paintings on ff. 18a, 55a, 89a, 229a, 236b, 240a, 244a, 248b, 255a, and 260b; size, 95/8 in. by 61/2 in.