[IO Islamic 345] خمسۀ امير خسرو

Khamsa-i-Amîr Khusrau.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1196 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 345 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1196

Khamsa-i-Amîr Khusrau ( خمسۀ امير خسرو).

Another copy of the five mathnawîs which Amir Khusrau wrote in imitation of Niżâmî’s Khamsah:

1.Maṭla’-alanwâr, on fol. 1b.

2.Shîrîn u Khusrau, on fol. 42b.

3.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 94b.

4.Â’îna-i-Iskandarî (or as it is here styled at the beginning, in analogy to Niżâmî’s poem (خردنامۀ اسکندرى), on fol. 126b.

5.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 181b.

Dated the last of Dhû-alḳa’dah, A.H. 980 (A.D. 1573, April 3), by كتّاب الله بن كيومشاه.

No. 345, ff. 223, 4 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; the first two pages luxuriously adorned; size, 11¼ in. by 7½ in.