[IO Islamic 609] انتخاب ديوان سعدى

<strong>Intikhâb-i-dîwân-i-Sa’dî.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1132 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 609 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1132 Intikhâb-i-dîwân-i-Sa’dî (انتخاب ديوان سعدى). Short extracts from Sa’dî’s minor poems, consisting of ḳaṣîdas and ghazals, with a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end. Beginning:شكر و سپاس و نعمت و منّت خدايرا (the usual beginning of the قصائد فارسيّه , see the preceding copies). No date. No. 609, ff. 215^b-244, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 24-28; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages richly ornamented; a drawing on fol. 244^b; size, 9^3/4 in. by 5^1/2 in.