This illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d. 605 AH / 1209 CE) dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a). Each of the five poems begins with an illuminated headpiece (fols. 32b, 117b, 176b, 240b, 331b), and there are thirty-six illustrations. The lacquer binding is not original to the manuscript.
