[IO Islamic 2381] خمسۀ امير خسرو

<strong>Khamsa</strong><strong>-i-Amîr Khusrau.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1197 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 2381 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1197 Another copy of the same. Contents: 1.Maṭla’-alanwâr, on fol.1^b; the conclusion of this mathnawî is found on ff. 383-387, the leaves being misplaced. 2.Shîrîn u Khusrau, on fol. 61^b. 3.Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 140^b. 4.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 212^b. 5.Â’îna-i-Iskandarî, on fol. 304^b; this poem concludes on fol. 382^b margin. A short account of Amîr Khusrau’s life in English on the fly-leaf. This copy is dated by ‘Abd-alḍa’îf Sayyîd Ḳâsim ibn Sayyid Jalâl, the 1st of Muḥarram, A.H. 1004 (A.D. 1595, Sept. 6). Many headings are omitted. No. 2381, ff. 387, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 19, and a third on the margin of ff. 1-138 and 304-387, ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 7^5/8 in. by 4^1/4 in.