[IO Islamic 736] هشت بهشت

• Hasht Bihisht and Â’îna-i-Iskandarî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1205 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 736 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1205

Hasht Bihisht and Â’îna-i-Iskandarî.

Another copy of the fourth and fifth part of Amîr Khusrau’s Khamsah, without a date.

1.Hasht Bihisht, on fol. 270^b.

2.Â’îna-i-Iskandarî (here simply styled اسكندر نامه), on fol. 306^b.

All the chapter-headings are left blank.

No. 736, ff. 270-353, 4 coll., each ll. 25; distinct Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of either mathnawî; size, 15^1/8 in. by 9^7/8 in.