[IO Islamic 877] كلّيّات سعدى

Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1119 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 877 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1119

The same.

Contents:

1.The collector’s preface, slightly defective at the beginning, on fol.1b.

2.Six risâlas; the first, on fol. 3a (در تقرير ديباچه); the second, in five مجلس, on ff. 7a, 9a, 12b, 14b, and 17b; the third, on fol. 23a (رسالۀ صاحب ديوان), beginning here: خواجۀ صاحب فرمان نيكو سيرت الخ ; the fourth, on fol. 24b (در عقل و عشق); the fifth, on fol. 26b (در نصيحة الملوك); the sixth, on fol. 34b, is styled here رسائل ثلاثة, and comprises the three stories, referring to Abâḳâkhân, Ankiyânû, and Malik Shams-aldîn, which form risâlas 6-8 in the preceding copy. The second story, on fol. 35b, is headed here نصيحه و پند ; the third begins on fol. 37b.

3.Gulistân, on fol. 38b.

4.Bûstân, on fol. 110b.

5.Persian ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 205a, beginning as in the two preceding copies.

6.Marâthî, on fol. 232b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

7.Mulamma’ât, on fol. 237a, also beginning as in the preceding copy.

8.Ṭayyibât, on fol. 247b, beginning: اوّل دفتر الخ.

9.Badâ’i’ , on fol. 340a, beginning as usual.

10.Khawâtîm, on fol. 381a, beginning as in the preceding copy.

11.Early ghazals, on fol. 396b, beginning: اى يار الخ.

12.Ṣâḥibiyyah, on fol. 403b; prose-introduction and initial bait the same as in the preceding copy.

13.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 424a, beginning: تو آن نكردۀ از فعل خير با من و غير الخ (corresponding to fol. 355a, l. 4, in No. 1117 in this Cat.)

14.Rubâ’iyyât, on fol. 429b, beginning :هر ساعتم الخ.

15.Fardiyyât, on fol. 439b, beginning: وربّ غلام صائب الخ.

The Arabic ḳaṣîdas, the Tarjî’ât, the Hazliyyât or mock homilies, and the Muḍḥikât are entirely wanting in this copy, which is besides slightly injured and effaced in many places. It is dated the 26th of Jumâdâ-althânî, A.H. 951 (A.D. 1544, September 14).

No. 877, ff. 444, 2 center-coll., each 11. 17, and a third on the margin, ll. 12; small, but distinct Nasta’lîḳ; an illuminated heading at the beginning of each part; size, 91/2 in. by 61/8 in.