[IO Islamic 3336] خمسۀ امير خسرو

Khamsa-i-Amîr Khusrau.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1198 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 3336 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1198

The same.

Contents:

1.Maṭla’-alanwâr, on fol. 1b.

2.Shîrîn u Khusrau, on fol. 67b.

3.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 146b.

4.Â’îna-i-Iskandarî, on fol. 198b.

5.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 284b.

Copied A.H. 1081 (A.D. 1670, 1671) by Taḳî bin Maḥmûd Ḳâdirî (the name of the scribe appears only at the end of the fourth mathnawî). Large waterspots throughout.

No. 3336, olim 7.J. 1, ff. 347, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 13, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; small Nasta’lîḳ; size, 10¼ in. by 6 in.