[IO Islamic 1766] انشاء امير خسرو

• Inshâ-i-Amîr Khusrau.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1221 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 1766 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1221

Inshâ-i-Amîr Khusrau ( انشاء امير خسرو).

Letters on Ṣûfic topics, mystic love, Persian and Indian music, and similar subjects, written in a very flowery prose style, intermixed with numerous verses, by Amîr Khusrau, forming a sequel to the preceding work on epistolography, the رسائل الاعجاز.

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.

Occasional short interlinear glosses. The copy appears to be incomplete at the end. The first owner was Muḥammad Darwîsh.

No. 1766, ff. 83, ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^1/8 in. by 5^3/4 in.