[IO Islamic 1651] خمسۀ نظامى

<strong>Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 979 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 1651 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 979 Niżâmî’s Khamsah without the <em>second</em> part of the Iskandarnâma. Contents: 1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1^b. 2. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 28^b. 3. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 81^b. 4 Haft Paikar, on fol. 156^b. 5. The <em>first</em> part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 212^b. Good copy, dated A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639, 1640), by Abû-alḥasan ibn Zain-aldîn Muḥammad of Zindanan (a village near Bukhârâ), and presented to the Library by Lieut.-Col. W. Kirkpatrick, 30 May, 1864. No. 1651, ff. 291, 4 coll., each ll. 21; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnawî; size, 11^5/8 in. by 7^1/4 in.