[IO Islamic 2783] كلّيّات عرفى

Kulliyyât-i-’Urfî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1452 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 2783 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1452

Another copy of the same Kulliyyât.

This copy contains:

1.A prose-preface, usually styled رسالۀ نفس نفيس (see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 901, and Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 261), on fol. 1b, beginning: حمدى كه از نهايت شايستگی منزّه از شائبۀ تعيّن و تخصيص آمده الخ. This preface is found in No. 1053 of the Bodleian Cat. too.

2.Majma’-alabkâr, on fol. 7b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

3.Khusrau u Shîrîn, or rather Farhâd u Shîrîn, on fol. 50b, likewise beginning as in the preceding copy.

4.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 64b, beginning: اقبال كرم ميگزد ارباب همم را الخ, see the remark in the preceding copy.

5.Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 134b, beginning, as most copies do (see the preceding copy):

اى دل راهزن كه از عرشم – بحضيض ثرى فرستادى

6.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two; beginning of the initial ghazal, on fol. 144b:

اى نه فلك ز خوشۀ صنع تو دانۀ

وز قصر كبرياى تو عرش آشيانۀ

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal the same as in the preceding copy.

7.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 208b.

Dated the 3rd of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1066 (A.D. 1656, Feb. 28).

No. 2783, ff. 226, 2 coll., each ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b, 7b, 50b, 64b, and 144b; size, 73/4 in. by 43/8 in.