[IO Islamic 2762] كلّيّات سعدى

<strong>Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1128 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 2762 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1128 A defective copy of the same. This excellent but defective copy contains: 1.Arabic ḳaṣîdas ( كتاب القصائد العربى), on fol. 1^b, beginning as usual; they break off on fol. 8^b in consequence of a lacuna after that page, in a poem rhyming in ١, which corresponds to the ḳaṣidah, on fol. 345^a, in No. 1117 in this Cat., beginning: يا ملوك الجمال الخ. The last bait here is the last on fol. 345^a 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. 230^a, 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. 145^b sq., in an absolutely complete form with no visible lacuna, into which these stray leaves might fit. 3.Mulamma’ât and Muthallathât, on ff. 143^a-144^b and 11^a-13^a, beginning as in No. 1125 in this Cat., fol. 189^b: .وقتها يكدم الخ 4.Tarjî’ât (or Murabba’ât, as they are called at the end), on fol. 13^b, beginning; .اى زلف تو الخ 5.Ṭayyibât, in alphabetical order, on fol. 19^b, beginning: .اوّل دفتر الخ .There is a lacuna after fol. 27; the last bait on fol. 27^b corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 221^a, l. 3 ab infra, the first complete poem, on fol. 28^a to fol. 220^b, last line, in the same copy. Ff. 50 and 51 are turned upside down, and must be read from 51^b backward to 50^a. 6.Badâ’i’, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 83^b, beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الخ (see No. 1117 in this Cat.). There is a lacuna after fol. 84; the last bait on fol. 84^b corresponds to No. 1117, fol. 247^a, l. 5 ab infra, and the first complete poem, on fol. 85^a to fol. 263^a, l. 17 in the same copy. There is a second lacuna after fol. 92; the last bait on fol. 92^a corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 286^b, last line but one (in No. 1117 it cannot be traced); the first complete poem, on fol. 93^a to No. 1117, fol. 253^a, l. 14 (this again cannot be traced in No. 1121). 7.Khawâtim, on fol.96^b, beginning: سپاس و حمد الخ. 8.Ṣâḥibiyyah, on fol. 108^b, 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. 123^b, beginning: گر اهل معرفتی هر چه بنگری خوبست الخ The initial poem of No. 1117, گويند سعديا الخ, is found here, on fol. 130^a. 10.Khabîthât, on fol. 131^b, 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. 362^a). They break off on fol. 134^b in consequence of a lacuna. 11.Ḳiṭ’as, short mathnawîs, rubâ’îs, and fards, all mixed together, on ff. 135^a-142^b; the ḳiṭ’as probably belong either to the Ṣâḥibiyyah or the Muḳaṭṭa’ât (Nos. 8 and 9). 12.Early ghazals, on fol. 145^b, beginning:با جوانى سر خوشست اين پيرئ تدبير را الخ (corresponding to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 209^a 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. 332^a, but in a metrically more correct form: گر ماه من بر افگند از رخ نقابرا الخ . 13.The end of the Bûstân, on fol. 179^a, beginning: نكو نام را كس نگيرد اسير الخ. It comprises the last twenty-nine or thirty verses of the <em>ninth</em> 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. 1^b, 13^b, 19^b, 83^b, 96^b, 108^b, 123^b, 131^b, 143^a, and 145^b; all the columns framed with glit edges; size , 9^5/8 in. by 6^3/8 in.