[IO Islamic 142] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 981 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 142 here with notations and hyperlinks].

981

The same.

Contents:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol.1b. 2. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 36b. 3.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 135b. 4. Haft Paikar, on fol. 205a. 5. The first part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 266b. Ff. 114 and 115 are left blank, and there seems to be a lacuna after fol. 113; small blanks also on ff. 204a and 366b. no date.

No. 142, ff. 367, 4 coll., each ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ; the original leaves are put into a modern margin; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; ff. 1b and 2a splendidly adorned; vignettes on ff. 1a, 36a , 135a, 265b, and 266a; size, 12¼ in. by 9½ in.