[IO Islamic 1946] شیرین و خسرو

• Shîrîn-u-Khusrau.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1203 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 1946 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1203

Shîrîn u Khusrau.

Another copy of the second (in No. 1199 above the third) part of Amîr Khusrau’s Khamsah, not dated.

An entry on fol. 1^b margin (And also at the end) gives A.H. 1124 (A.D. 1712) as the year in which this copy was bought at ‘Abbâsâbâd by ‘Abdallâh ibn Ḥâjî Maḳṣûd. More recent owners of the same were Edward Galley and Sir Barry Close, the latter of whom presented it to the Library.

No. 1946, ff. 149, 2 coll., each ll. 14; very clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; several blanks left for pictures; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^5/8 in.