[IO Islamic 1491] خمسۀ نظامى

Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 980 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 1491 here with notations and hyperlinks].

980

Another copy of the same.

Contents:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1b. 2. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 45b. 3. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 164b. 4. Haft Paikar, on fol. 247b. 5 The first part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 342b. This copy was presented by prince Dârâ Shukûh to Muḥammad Muḳîm of Tabrîz, with the takhalluṣ Jauharî, the 12th of Ramḍân, A.H. 1061 (A.D. 1651, August 29).

No. 1491, ff. 467, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 14, and a third on the margin, ll. 28; small Nasta’lîḳ; the first two pages of each mathnawî splendidly illuminated; size, 71/8 in. by 41/4 in.