[IO Islamic 2445] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 978 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 2445 here with notations and hyperlinks].

978

The same.

This copy, which is not dated, contains the mathnawîs in the following order:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. 2. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 39b. 3. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 108b. 4a. The first part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 207b. 4b. The second part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 322b. 5. Haft Paikar, on fol. 383b. Good copy, with two small lacunas after ff. 438 and 462.

No. 2445, ff. 465, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 14, and a third on the margin, ll. 32; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1b; no headings at the beginning of the other mathnawîs; size, 10 in. by 6½ in.