[IO Islamic 365] كلّيّات اهلى شيرازى

Kulliyyât-i-Ahlî-Shîrâzî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1433 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 365 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1433

Another copy of the same.

This copy of Ahlî’s Kulliyyât contains:

1.Siḥr-i-ḥalâl, beginning on fol. 2a; it is preceded, on fol. 1b, by the usual dibâća, the first words of which run here thus: حمد بيحدّ و ثناى نامحدود و شكر نا معدود سزاوار الخ.

2.Sham’ u Parwâna, on fol. 12b.

3.Ḳaṣîdas and tarjî’bands, on fol. 31b, beginning as on fol. 50b in the preceding copy.

4.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 81a, beginning as on fol. 203b in the preceding copy.

5.Ghazaliyyât, in alphabetical order, on fol. 91b, beginning as on fol. 50b margin in the preceding copy; a mukhammas, on fol. 160a.

6.Rubâ’iyyât-i-Sâḳînâma (رباعيّات ساقى نامه), on fol. 278a, preceded by the usual dîbâća, on fol. 277b margin; beginning of both the same as in the preceding copy.

7.Rubâ’iyyât-i-ganjifa, on fol. 284a, preceded by the usual dîbâća, on fol. 283b margin.

8.Riddles (معمّات), on fol. 314a, beginning as usual.

9.Ḳaṣâ’id-i-maṣnû’, the same three highly artificial ḳaṣîdas as in the preceding copy, but in the order of the Bodleian copies, i. e. the second ḳaṣîdah here corresponds to the third in No. 1432, and vice versa.

First dîbâća, on fol. 317b, beginning : حمدى از حدّ افزون الخ.

First ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 318b.

Second dîbâća, on fol. 332b, beginning: حمد بيحدّ و سپاس بی قیاس مر حضرت عزّت را جلّت نعماؤه الخ.

Second ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 333b, beginning: هواى جنّت كويت نسيم عنبر بار الخ .

Third dîbâća, on fol. 348b, beginning: حمد و سپاس بی قیاس صانعی را که فهرست الخ.

Third ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 349b, beginning: هواى گلشن كويت نسيم باد بهار الخ.

Nos. 8 and 11 of the preceding copy are wanting here.

Dated Sha’bân, A.H. 1049 (A.D. 1639, Nov.-Dec.), by Sa’îd bin Fakhr-aldîn Aḥmad of Shîrâz.

No. 365, ff. 363, 2 coll., each ll. 21, and a third on the margin, ll. 12; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b, 12b, 31b, 91b, and 317b; rich ornaments and arabesques in gold on ff. 1b, 2a, 12b, 13a, 31b, 32a, 91b, 92a, 317b, and 318a; size, 103/4 in. by 6 in.