[IO Islamic 1667] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 975 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 1667 here with notations and hyperlinks].

975

The same.

Contents:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. 2. Haft Paikar, on fol. 24b. 3. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 73b. 4. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 142b. 5a. The first part of the Iskandarnâma, styled اقبالنامۀ اسكندرى, on fol. 184b.

5b. The second part of the Iskandarnâma, styled here اقبالنامۀ شيخ نظامى, on fol. 250b. A few lines on fol. 269a are left blank. This copy, worm-eaten in many places, was finished in Rajab, A.H. 1054 (A.D. 1644, September), by Muḥammad Riḍâ.

No. 1667, ff. 285, 4 coll., each ll. 25; small Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî, the first two pages of each are besides splendidly adorned; size, 10¼ in. by 5 in.