[IO Islamic 387] خمسۀ نظامى

<ul> <li><strong>Khamsa-i-Niż&acirc;m&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 976&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 387 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>976</p> <p>The same.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.Makhzan-alasr&acirc;r, on fol. 1^b. 2. Khusra u Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n, on fol. 37^b. 3. Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n, on fol. 141^b. 4. Haft Paikar, on fol. 212^b. 5^a.The <em>first</em> part of the Iskandarn&acirc;ma (اقبالنامۀ اسكندرى), on fol. 293^b.</p> <p>5^b. The <em>second</em> part of the Iskandarn&acirc;ma (خردنامۀ اسكندرى), on fol. 400^b. The copy concludes on fol. 454^b, and on ff. 455-468 some parts of the last mathnaw&icirc; are repeated, but not in any coherent form; for instance, fol. 456^b, l. 11, corresponds to fol. 433^a, l. 3, but the preceding portions in both parts are quite different.</p> <p>On fol. 453^a, l. 5, there appears the وفات حكيم , i.e. the انجامش روزگار نظامى, see above in No. 973. No date. But on fol. 1^a there is the seal of a former owner, rather effaced, dated A.H. 1070 (A.D. 1659, 1660), and another of Sh&acirc;h M&icirc;rkh&acirc;n (dated A.H. 1147. A.D. 1734, 1735). In August, 1782, this MS. came into the possession of Mr. Richard Johnson.</p> <p>No. 387, ff. 468, 4 centre-coll., each ll. 17; beautiful Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnaw&icirc;, the first two pages luxuriously adorned; a vignette on fol. 1^a; miniature paintings on ff. 4^a, 17^a, 47^b, 55^a, 61^b, 64^a, 65^b, 70^a, 71^b, 83^a, 93^b, 95^b, 102^b, 104^a, 124^a, 132^a, 167^b, 182^a, 201^b, 225^b, 227^a, 232^a, 235^b, 237^b, 244^a, 252^a, 259^b, 264^b, 267^a, 279^a, 284^b, 306^b, 311^a, 318^a, 334^a, 337^b, 346^b, 364^b, 372^b, 374^a, 386^a, 396^a, 422^b, 438^a, 442^b, 456^a, 466^a, and 468^a; size, 10&frac12; in. by 6&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>