[IO Islamic 350] كلّيّات فريد الدين عطّار

Kulliyyât-i-Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1032 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 350 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1032

Another but smaller copy of the same Kulliyyât.

This collection of Farîd-aldîn ‘Aṭṭâr’s poetical works contains:

1.Pandnâma, on fol. 1b. 2. Ilâhînâma, on fol. 10b. 3. Waṣiyyatnâma (وصيّت نامه), or the book of precepts, on fol. 69b, beginning:

اى بنامت كارها را افتتاح

نيست بى نام تو در امرى فلاح

This very rare mathnawî, which is probably identical with the Ausatnâma in Stewart’s Cat., p. 60, is only found here and in two Bodleian copies (Bodleian Cat., Nos. 622, 16, and 624, 6). 4. Haft Wâdî, on fol. 76b. 5. Bulbulnâma, on fol. 83b. 6. Manṭiḳ-alṭair, on fol. 88b. 7. Kanz-alḥaḳâ’iḳ, on fol. 141b; the title appears on fol. 142b, lin. penult. 8. Khusrau u Gul, on fol. 155b. 9. Miftâḥ-alfutûḥ, on fol. 239b. 10. Muṣibatnâma, on fol. 256b. 11.Dîwân, on fol. 332b, beginning:سبحان خالقى كه صفاتش زكبريا الخ . 12. Mukhtârnâma (مختار نامه), or the selected book, a series of rubâ’îs, divided into fifty bâbs, with a preface in prose (see Rieu ii. pp. 576b and 577b). It is sometimes simply styled رباعيّات, see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 622, 21; 623, 21, etc. Beginning of the preface, on fol. 392b: حمد و سپاس خداونديرا كه اشراق الوهيّت او در هر در الخ. Beginning of the first rubâ’î in the first chapter (باب اوّل در توحيد سبحانه وصفات او), on fol. 393b:

اى پاكئ تو منزّه از هر پاكى

قدّوسئ او (تو read ) مققدّس از ادراكى

This copy is dated A.H. 1025 (A.D. 1616), by Ḥasan Muḥammad bin Râjî Muḥammad ‘abbâsî.

No. 350, ff. 449, 4 coll., each ll. 25; Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated frontispiece at the beginning of each part; size, 12 in. by 71/4 in.