[IO Islamic 775] كلّيّات سعدى

Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1125 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 775 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1125

The same.

Contents:

1.The collector’s preface, on fol. 1b.

2.Five risâlas, i.e. risâlas 2-6 of the usual copies (the first, در تقرير ديباچه, is wanting here, just as in the preceding copy); the first (second risâlah), in five مجلس , on ff. 5a, 7a, 10a, 11b, and 14a; the second (third risâlah), on fol. 18b; the third (fourth risâlah), on fol. 19b (here entitled: از سؤال مولانا شمس الدين, and beginning: سؤال مولانا شمس الدين نطنزى از شيخ سعدى منظومه سالك راه خدا الخ; the fourth (fifth risâlah), on fol. 21a; the fifth (sixth risâlah), containing the three stories , on fol. 27b.

A fihrist of the following sixteen parts (or books) of this copy, on fol. 30b.

3.Gulistân, on fol. 31a.

4.Bûstân, on fol.89b.

5.Arabic ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 154a.

6.Persian ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 160a.

7.Marâthî, on fol. 184b.

8.Mulamma’ât, on fol. 189b, beginning here: وقتها يكدم نياسودى تنم الخ (corresponding to the initial bait in No. 782 of the Berlin Cat., Pertsch, p,. 805, and No. 683 of the Bodleian Cat., col. 530).

9.Tarji’ât, on fol. 194a, beginning here: اى سرو بلند قامت دوست الخ (corresponding to the initial bait in No. 1117 in this Cat.).

10.Ṭayyibât, on fol. 200b.

11.Badâ’i’, on fol. 279b.

12.Khawâtîm on fol. 332a, beginning here: گر ماه من بر افگند نقابرا الخ.

13.Early ghazals, on fol. 351b, beginning here : وه كه گر من باز بينم روى يار خويش را الخ

(corresponding to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 208a margin).

14. Ṣâḥibiyyah, on fol. 367b, with the usual prose-preface; the first poem begins here: يا رب تو هر چه بهتر و نيكوترش بده الخ (see the same initial bait in No. 692 of the Bodleian Cat., col. 539).

15.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 378b, beginning: گويند سعديا الخ .

16.Khabithât (or Muṭâyabât), on fol. 386a, beginning with the usual prose-lines; the initial bait of first poem corresponds to that in Nos. 1118 and 1122 in this Cat. On the margin of ff. 386b-389b there are added the Hazliyyât styled: المجالس الثلثة فى الهزل.

17.Rubâ’iyyât, on fol. 395b.

18.Mufradât, on fol. 406a.

The Muḍḥiḳât are wanting in this copy. One leaf at the end seems to be missing. No date. The right order of ff. 400-410 is: 400, 409, 402, 403, 407, 404- 406, 401, 408, and 410.

No. 775, ff. 410, 2 coll., each ll. 21 (on ff. 89b-153b, 3 coll.); Naskhî, many pages injured; an illuminated heading at the beginning of nearly every part; size, 93/4 in. by 55/8 in.