[IO Islamic 1766] انشاء امير خسرو

<ul> <li><strong>Insh&acirc;-i-Am&icirc;r Khusrau.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1221 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 1766 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1221</p> <p>Insh&acirc;-i-Am&icirc;r Khusrau ( انشاء امير خسرو).</p> <p>Letters on Ṣ&ucirc;fic topics, mystic love, Persian and Indian music, and similar subjects, written in a very flowery prose style, intermixed with numerous verses, by Am&icirc;r Khusrau, forming a sequel to the preceding work on epistolography, the رسائل الاعجاز.</p> <p>The first letter is headed (on fol.2^a): عجيب و غريب نامه كه خود قاصد شده و اظهار حال عاشق بمعشوق نموده و پاسخ از زبان معشوق شنوده الخ.</p> <p>Occasional short interlinear glosses. The copy appears to be incomplete at the end. The first owner was Muḥammad Darw&icirc;sh.</p> <p>No. 1766, ff. 83, ll. 15; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^1/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>