[IO Islamic 272] كّلّيات كاتبی

Kulliyyât-i-Kâtibî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1291 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 272 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1291

Another copy of the same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, intermixed with tarjî’bands, on fol. 1b, beginning as in all the usual copies: اى گِل آدم بخمر الخ

(the second poem in the preceding copy, on fol. 232b).

Ghazals, arranged alphabetically, on fol. 78b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 179a, beginning: اى دل ار خواهی الخ (see Nos. 867 and 868 of the Bodleian Cat.).

Rubâ’îs and riddles, on fol. 186b, beginning:اى وعدۀ دیدار تو میعاد بهشت الخ

The five mathnawîs in the following order:

1.Gulshan-i-Abrâr (=1 in the preceding copy), on fol. 190b, beginning:

بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحيم – تاج كلامست و كلام قديم

2.Dah bâb (= 5 in the preceding copy), on fol. 211b.

3.Majma’-albaḥrain (=4 in the preceding copy), with a preface in prose, on fol. 249b, beginning:مدام از حضرت مبلغ الهام الخ ; the poem itself begins on fol. 251a.

4.Sî Nâma (=2 in the preceding copy), on fol. 285b.

5.Dilrubâi (=3 in the preceding copy), on fol. 330b.

This copy is dated the 15th of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1087 (A.D. 1677, Feb. 18).

No. 272, ff. 345, 2 coll., each ll. 17; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b, 78b, 190b, 211b, 249b, 285b, and 330b; illuminated headings besides throughout; the first two pages richly adorned; a vignette on fol. 1a; size, 83/8 in by 47/8 in.