[IO Islamic 3191] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 977 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 3191 here with notations and hyperlinks].

977

The same.

Contents:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. The wrong date of A.H. 559 appears here on fol. 29b, l. 4: پانصد و پنجاه و نه. 2. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 30b. 3. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 125b. The date, A.H. 584, appears on fol. 130b, l. 11. 4. Haft Paikar, on fol. 185b. The date, A.H. 593, appears on fol. 257b, l. 5. 5a. The first part of the Iskandarnâma, styled here شرفنامه or اسكندرنامۀ برّى (see fol. 344b and fol. 345a in the colophon), on fol. 258b. The date, A.H. 597, appears on fol. 345b, l. 10.

5b. The second part of the Iskandarnâma, styled here اقبالنامه or سكندرنامۀ بحرى, on fol. 345b.

This excellent copy, dated A.H. 1072=A.D. 1661, 1662 (see fol. 257b), was received into the Library March 29, 1878.

No. 3191, ff. 390, 4 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; pictures on ff. 46a, 53a, 56a, 57b, 63b, 74b, 83a, 84a, 89b, 109b, 114b, 118a, 119b, 147a, 153a, 158b, 195a, 197a, 198b, 203a, 205a, 207b, 213a, 216a, 217b, 219a, 220a, 221b (damaged), 222b, 225b, 226a, 229a, 229b, 233b, 234a, 238b, 240a, 240b, 244a, 245a, 245b, 249b, 276a, 289b, 292a, 297a, 301a, 303b, 321b, 323a, and 341b; size, 10½ in. by 6¾ in.