[IO Islamic 2381] خمسۀ امير خسرو

<ul> <li><strong>Khamsa</strong><strong>-i-Am&icirc;r Khusrau.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1197&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 2381 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1197</p> <p>Another copy of the same.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>1.Maṭla&rsquo;-alanw&acirc;r, on fol.1^b; the conclusion of this mathnaw&icirc; is found on ff. 383-387, the leaves being misplaced.</p> <p>2.Sh&icirc;r&icirc;n u Khusrau, on fol. 61^b.</p> <p>3.Lail&acirc; u Majn&ucirc;n, on fol. 140^b.</p> <p>4.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 212^b.</p> <p>5.&Acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;na-i-Iskandar&icirc;, on fol. 304^b; this poem concludes on fol. 382^b margin.</p> <p>A short account of Am&icirc;r Khusrau&rsquo;s life in English on the fly-leaf. This copy is dated by &lsquo;Abd-alḍa&rsquo;&icirc;f Sayy&icirc;d Ḳ&acirc;sim ibn Sayyid Jal&acirc;l, the 1st of Muḥarram, A.H. 1004 (A.D. 1595, Sept. 6). Many headings are omitted.</p> <p>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&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 7^5/8 in. by 4^1/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>