[IO Islamic 843] كلّيّات سعدى

Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1120 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 843 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1120

The same.

Contents:

1.The collectors’s preface, on fol. 2b.

2.The usual six risâlas; the first, on fol. 4a; the second, in five مجلس , on ff. 7a, last line, 9b, 12a, 13b margin, and 16a, last line; the third (here wrongly styled مجلس خامس), on fol. 21a, beginning: صاحب قران خواجۀ زمان الخ; the fourth ( here wrongly styled المجلس الرابع) , on fol. 22b; it is headed فى صفت العقل, and a few lines further down در تعريف عقل و عشق, and begins in the usual way: سالك راه الخ ; the fifth, on fol. 24a; the sixth, containing the three stories, on fol. 31a (the second story در مدح انكيانو is here designated as رسالۀ دوم ; and the third رسالۀ ملك شمس الدين as المجلس الثالث).

3.Gulistân, on ff. 34b-37b and 71a-115a.

4.Bûstân, on ff. 115b-171b, 48a-70b, and 172a-175a (the leaves from 47-172 being misplaced).

5.Arabic ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 175b.

6.Persian ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 183b.

7.Tarjî’ât, on fol. 208a margin, beginning: غريبان را دل از مهر تو خونست الخ. This initial bait is found in the immediately following copy, at the beginning of the Marâthî, and in No. 683 of the Bodleian Cat., col. 530, No. 13, at that of the ترجيعات و مراثي , a combination of refrain-poems and elegies which seems to be implied here too.

8.Ghazaliyyât (غزليّات), comprising the four branches, separated in all the preceding copies, viz. The Ṭayyibât, the early ghazals, the Badâ’i’, and the Khawâtîm, on fol. 223b, beginning: اوّل دفتر بنام ايزد الخ . Exactly the same combination of the minor lyrical pomes of Sa’dî is found in the following copy, No. 1121.

These collected ghazals have been specially edited (together with the بهار دانش), Calcutta, about 1784, and 1811.

9. Ṣâḥibiyyah, on fol. 372b, beginning with the usual prose-introduction, thus الحمد لله على فضائل نعمه الخ.

10.Mulamma’ât and Mathnawiyyât (مثنويّات) , on fol. 384b, beginning:

همه را ده چو میدهى مرسوم

نه يكى را ده و دگر محرم

Short pieces in mathnawî-form at the end of the Ṣâḥibiyyah are also noticed in Rieu’s first copy, on fol. 322 sq., and in Nos, 682 and 692 of the Bodleian Cat., coll. 529 and 539.

11.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 389b, beginning, as in the preceding copy: تو آن نكردۀ از فعل الخ.

12.Khabîthât, or obscene poems, on fol. 391a, beginning:

بعض الخ ( read السّعدى الزمنى) قال السّعد الومنى.

13.Hazliyyât (here wrongly styled Muḍḥikât and Hazliyyât, since the Muḍḥikât appear immediately after as a special item), i.e. the three mock homilies, on ff. 399a, 401b, and 403a, beginning: (read اللّعين) العن الشيطان الخ.

14.Muḍḥikât, on fol. 404b, beginning: شخصى از فقيهى الخ.

15.Rubâiyyât, on fol. 405b, beginning: اى چشم تو مست الخ, corresponding to the last but three in No. 1117 in this Cat., fol. 373a, and to the initial rubâ’î in No. 688 in the Bodleian Cat., col. 536 , No. 11.

16 Fardiyyât, on fol. 411a, beginning: و ربّ غلام الخ.

Copied A.H. 1034 (A.D. 1624, 1625), by Maḥmûd the scribe of Shîrâz.

No. 843, ff. 414, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 19, and a third on the margin , ll. 12; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; luxurious illuminations throughout, the most splendid ones on ff. 2b, 3a, 34b, 35a, 115b, 116a, 175b, 176a, 183b, 184a, 223b, 224b, 372b, 373a, 405b, and 406a; pictures on ff. 1b,2a, 20b, 42b, 48b, 57a, 68b, 86a, 117a, 140b, 151b, 160a, 232a, 246a, 291a, 322a, 339a, 392a, 413b, and 414a; size, 13 in. by 7¾ in.