[IO Islamic 2445] خمسۀ نظامى

• Khamsa-i-Niżâmî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 978 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 2445 here with notations and hyperlinks].

978

The same.

This copy, which is not dated, contains the mathnawîs in the following order:

1.Makhzan-alasrâr, on fol. 1^b. 2. Lailâ u Majnûn, on fol. 39^b. 3. Khusrau u Shîrîn, on fol. 108^b. 4^a. The first part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 207^b. 4^b. The second part of the Iskandarnâma, on fol. 322^b. 5. Haft Paikar, on fol. 383^b. Good copy, with two small lacunas after ff. 438 and 462.

No. 2445, ff. 465, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 14, and a third on the margin, ll. 32; Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1^b; no headings at the beginning of the other mathnawîs; size, 10 in. by 6½ in.