[IO Islamic 2762] كلّيّات سعدى

Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1128 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 2762 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1128

A defective copy of the same.

This excellent but defective copy contains:

1.Arabic ḳaṣîdas ( كتاب القصائد العربى), on fol. 1b, beginning as usual; they break off on fol. 8b in consequence of a lacuna after that page, in a poem rhyming in ١, which corresponds to the ḳaṣidah, on fol. 345a, in No. 1117 in this Cat., beginning: يا ملوك الجمال الخ.

The last bait here is the last on fol. 345a in that copy.

2.Some ghazals, on ff. 9 and 10, defective both at the beginning and end; the first bait:

گرما مقصّريم تو بسيار رحمتى

عمرى كه ميرود باميد وفاى تست

corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 230a, l. 4, and belongs in fact to the usual initial poem of the ‘early ghazals’ (which begins: اى يار ناگزير الخ); it would seem, therefore, as if these two leaves were part of a fuller collection of the غزليّات قديم , but, strange to say, these very ‘early ghazals’ follow further down, on fol. 145b sq., in an absolutely complete form with no visible lacuna, into which these stray leaves might fit.

3.Mulamma’ât and Muthallathât, on ff. 143a-144b and 11a-13a, beginning as in No. 1125 in this Cat., fol. 189b: .وقتها يكدم الخ

4.Tarjî’ât (or Murabba’ât, as they are called at the end), on fol. 13b, beginning; .اى زلف تو الخ

5.Ṭayyibât, in alphabetical order, on fol. 19b, beginning: .اوّل دفتر الخ .There is a lacuna after fol. 27; the last bait on fol. 27b corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 221a, l. 3 ab infra, the first complete poem, on fol. 28a to fol. 220b, last line, in the same copy. Ff. 50 and 51 are turned upside down, and must be read from 51b backward to 50a.

6.Badâ’i’, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 83b, beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الخ (see No. 1117 in this Cat.). There is a lacuna after fol. 84; the last bait on fol. 84b corresponds to No. 1117, fol. 247a, l. 5 ab infra, and the first complete poem, on fol. 85a to fol. 263a, l. 17 in the same copy. There is a second lacuna after fol. 92; the last bait on fol. 92a corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 286b, last line but one (in No. 1117 it cannot be traced); the first complete poem, on fol. 93a to No. 1117, fol. 253a, l. 14 (this again cannot be traced in No. 1121).

7.Khawâtim, on fol.96b, beginning: سپاس و حمد الخ.

8.Ṣâḥibiyyah, on fol. 108b, with the usual prose-preface, beginning here thus: الله الكافى حسب الخلائق وحده الحمد لله نعمه الخ. The first poem begins here (as in Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 196): ما هذه الدنيا بدار مخلّد الخ.

9.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 123b, beginning: گر اهل معرفتی هر چه بنگری خوبست الخ

The initial poem of No. 1117, گويند سعديا الخ, is found here, on fol. 130a.

10.Khabîthât, on fol. 131b, beginning with the usual prose-preface. The initial poem begins:

آن شنيدى كه در بلاد شمال الخ

(corresponding to No. 1117 in this Cat., fol. 362a). They break off on fol. 134b in consequence of a lacuna.

11.Ḳiṭ’as, short mathnawîs, rubâ’îs, and fards, all mixed together, on ff. 135a-142b; the ḳiṭ’as probably belong either to the Ṣâḥibiyyah or the Muḳaṭṭa’ât (Nos. 8 and 9).

12.Early ghazals, on fol. 145b, beginning:با جوانى سر خوشست اين پيرئ تدبير را الخ (corresponding to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 209a margin, l. 6 ab infra, where, however, با جوانان is read instead of با جوانى); the second poem here begins like the Khawâtîm in No. 1125 in this Cat., fol. 332a, but in a metrically more correct form: گر ماه من بر افگند از رخ نقابرا الخ .

13.The end of the Bûstân, on fol. 179a, beginning: نكو نام را كس نگيرد اسير الخ. It comprises the last twenty-nine or thirty verses of the ninth and the whole tenth bâb, corresponding to Graf’s ed., p. 429, l. 5 to p. 444, l. 5.

No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2762, ff. 182, ll. 23; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; small illuminated headings on ff. 1b, 13b, 19b, 83b, 96b, 108b, 123b, 131b, 143a, and 145b; all the columns framed with glit edges; size , 95/8 in. by 63/8 in.