[IO Islamic 387] خمسۀ امير خسرو

Khamsa-i-Amîr Khusrau.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1200 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 387 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1200

The same.

Contents:

1.Maṭla’-alanwâr, on fol. 2b.

2.Shîrîn u Khusrau, on fol. 90a.

3.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 206a.

4.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 281b.

5.Â’îna-i-IskandarÎ, on fol. 380b.

The last mathnawî concludes on fol. 454b, and on ff. 455-468 some parts of the same are repeated; but these parts are not coherent (comp. No. 976 in this Cat.). No date.

No. 387, margin-col., ff. 468, ll. 34; beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; a small illuminated heading at the beginning of each mathnawî.