[IO Islamic 1725] كلّيّات سعدى

Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1130 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 1725 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1130

A small fragment of the same.

This fragment comprises only a part of the collector’s preface and a defective set of the usual risâlas, viz. Bisutûn’s (or Ibn Bisutûn’s) preface, beginning as usual, on fol. 1b; but already on the margin of the next page, fol. 2a, the copyist has suddenly jumped from this preface into the middle of the first risâlah, در تقرير ديباچه ; ll. 8 and 9 belong likewise to the preface; but the words in l. 14, كه دل شخص انسان بود الخ, are part of the first risâlah, corresponding to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 3a margin, l. 13. A second jump from the middle of the first risâlah into that of the second (the five مجلس) is made on fol. 5a margin; I. 2 also belongs to the first risâlah, corresponding to No. 1121, fol. 5a margin, lin. Penult.; l. 3 already forms part of the first majlis of the second risâlah, corresponding to No. 1121, fol. 6b, l. 9. The second majlis begins on fol. 6a, the third on fol. 8b margin, the fourth on fol. 10a margin, the fifth on fol. 13a; the third risâlah, on fol. 18b margin; the fourth, on fol. 20a; the fifth, on fol. 21b; the sixth, comprising the first story only (نصيحت حضرت شيخ سلطان اباقا), on fol. 31a; the seventh, comprising the third story of the usual sixth risâlah, حكايت ملك شمس الدين, on fol. 32a; towards the end of this story the copy breaks off, the last words corresponding to No. 1126 in this Cat., fol. 82b, l. 6.

No. 1725, ff. 32, centre-col., ll. 12; margin-col., ll. 26; small Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages splendidly adorned; small illuminations throughout; a picture on fol. 18a size, 91/8 in. by 51/2 in.