[IO Islamic 183] قصيدۀ امير خسرو

Ḳaṣîda-i-Amîr Khusrau. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1195 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 183 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1195 Ḳaṣîda-i-Amîr-Khusrau (قصيدۀ امير خسرو). Amîr Khusrau’s great ḳaṣîdah on the subject of Faridausî’s Shâhnâma (قصيدۀ امير خسرو دهلوى متضمّن حقيقت شاهنامۀ فردوسى), introduced and concluded by a rubâ’î. Heading: بنام ايزد بخشايندۀ بخشايشگر مهربان دادگر Beginning of the ḳaṣîdah: آمد نگار من بسرا از ناز افترا با قامتی چو از چمن خلد عرعرا‘ No date. No. 183, ff. 21. 2 coll., each ll. 15; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; size, 11½ in. by 6½ in