[IO Islamic 2381] خمسۀ امير خسرو

Khamsa-i-Amîr Khusrau.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1197 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 2381 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1197

Another copy of the same.

Contents:

1.Maṭla’-alanwâr, on fol.1b; the conclusion of this mathnawî is found on ff. 383-387, the leaves being misplaced.

2.Shîrîn u Khusrau, on fol. 61b.

3.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 140b.

4.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 212b.

5.Â’îna-i-Iskandarî, on fol. 304b; this poem concludes on fol. 382b margin.

A short account of Amîr Khusrau’s life in English on the fly-leaf. This copy is dated by ‘Abd-alḍa’îf Sayyîd Ḳâsim ibn Sayyid Jalâl, the 1st of Muḥarram, A.H. 1004 (A.D. 1595, Sept. 6). Many headings are omitted.

No. 2381, ff. 387, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 19, and a third on the margin of ff. 1-138 and 304-387, ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 75/8 in. by 41/4 in.