| Object Number | NEP81 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Persian |
| Provenience | Iran |
| Date Made | 1632 CE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Paper | Ink | Lacquer |
| Description | Persian. Front piece and three double pages illumination. Lacquer (bl)covered with inlaid medallion. The writing of Sultan Mahmut. No. 7 Persian. Khamsah by Amir Khosraw. Size 12.25 x 7.5 and 8 x 4.5 in. Folios 182. Written in small Nastaliq. 20 lines to a page, in four columns. 8 immams. Gold ruled margins. Cream color paper. Old lacquer binding, outside decorated with medalions. Date and name of the calligrapher folio 181 a - finished by sultan Mohammad Tabiandi in Rajab (month) 1041 A.H. (February 1632) Khamasah or "The Five (poems)" by Amir Khorsrow Dihlawi (from Dehli). the greatest persian poet of India (1253-1325). It was written in imitation of the Khamash of the famous Persian poet Nizami (1140-1202). There are in this MS. 4 poems only; the fifth (Shirin wa Khosraw) is missing. Arrangement as follows: pp. 2b - 46b, Matla al-Anwar. The rising of the lights, a moral person. pp. 47b - 8a, Majuim wa Laila, love story of Majuim and his beloved Laila, of 2 Bedouin tribes. pp. 80b - 123a. Haaht Bihisht, the Eight Paradies, a poem of the loves of the King Behram. pp. 123b - 181a., Ainahi Sikandari, the mirro of Alexander a poetical legendary history of Alexander the Great. |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Dimitri Andalaft, 1921 |
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