[IO Islamic 345] خمسۀ امير خسرو

<ul> <li><strong>Khamsa</strong><strong>-i-Am&icirc;r Khusrau.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1196 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 345 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1196</p> <p>Khamsa-i-Am&icirc;r Khusrau ( خمسۀ امير خسرو).</p> <p>Another copy of the five mathnaw&icirc;s which Amir Khusrau wrote in imitation of Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s Khamsah:</p> <p>1.Maṭla&rsquo;-alanw&acirc;r, on fol. 1^b.</p> <p>2.Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n u Khusrau, on fol. 42^b.</p> <p>3.Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n, on fol. 94^b.</p> <p>4.&Acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;na-i-Iskandar&icirc; (or as it is here styled at the beginning, in analogy to Niż&acirc;m&icirc;&rsquo;s poem (خردنامۀ اسکندرى), on fol. 126^b.</p> <p>5.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 181^b.</p> <p>Dated the last of Dh&ucirc;-alḳa&rsquo;dah, A.H. 980 (A.D. 1573, April 3), by كتّاب الله بن كيومشاه.</p> <p>No. 345, ff. 223, 4 coll., each ll. 21; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each mathnaw&icirc;; the first two pages luxuriously adorned; size, 11&frac14; in. by 7&frac12; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>