[IO Islamic 387] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 976 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].

976

The same.

Contents:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. 2. Khusra u Shîrîn, on fol. 37b. 3. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 141b. 4. Haft Paikar, on fol. 212b. 5a.The first part of the Iskandarnâma (اقبالنامۀ اسكندرى), on fol. 293b.

5b. The second part of the Iskandarnâma (خردنامۀ اسكندرى), on fol. 400b. The copy concludes on fol. 454b, and on ff. 455-468 some parts of the last mathnawî are repeated, but not in any coherent form; for instance, fol. 456b, l. 11, corresponds to fol. 433a, l. 3, but the preceding portions in both parts are quite different.

On fol. 453a, l. 5, there appears the وفات حكيم , i.e. the انجامش روزگار نظامى, see above in No. 973. No date. But on fol. 1a there is the seal of a former owner, rather effaced, dated A.H. 1070 (A.D. 1659, 1660), and another of Shâh Mîrkhân (dated A.H. 1147. A.D. 1734, 1735). In August, 1782, this MS. came into the possession of Mr. Richard Johnson.

No. 387, ff. 468, 4 centre-coll., each ll. 17; beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî, the first two pages luxuriously adorned; a vignette on fol. 1a; miniature paintings on ff. 4a, 17a, 47b, 55a, 61b, 64a, 65b, 70a, 71b, 83a, 93b, 95b, 102b, 104a, 124a, 132a, 167b, 182a, 201b, 225b, 227a, 232a, 235b, 237b, 244a, 252a, 259b, 264b, 267a, 279a, 284b, 306b, 311a, 318a, 334a, 337b, 346b, 364b, 372b, 374a, 386a, 396a, 422b, 438a, 442b, 456a, 466a, and 468a; size, 10½ in. by 6½ in.