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[IO Islamic 407] كلّيّات سعدى

<ul> <li>Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.</li> <li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1122 in the India Office collections.</li> <li>[metadata: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9">Hermann Ethé</a>, <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681">2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</a> number 407 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li> </ul> 1122 The same. Another splendid copy of Sa’di’ Kulliyyât, very carefully written, and tolerably old, but not dated. Contents: 1.The collector’s preface, on fol. 2b. 2.Six risâlas of the usual contents; first, on fol. 4b; second, in five مجلس, on ff. 8a, 10b, 14a, 15b, and 19a; third, on fol.25a; fourth, on fol. 26b; fifth, on fol.29a; sixth, containing the three stories (حكايات), viz. the رسالۀ ملاقات اباقا, on fol. 38a; the نصيحت انكيانو, on fol. 39a; and the حكايت ملك شمس الدين, on fol. 41a. 3.Gulistân, on fol. 42a. 4.Bûstân, on fol. 128b. 5.Arabic ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 260b, preceded by a فهرست, on fol. 259b; beginning: ملك الهوى قلبى و جاش مغيّر الخ (corresponding to fol. 342b, last line, in No. 1117 in this Cat.) 6.Persian ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 272b, preceded by a فهرست ; beginning: شكر و سپاس الخ . 7.Marâthî, on fol. 311b, beginning: دل شكسته الخ. 8.Mulamma’ât, on fol. 317b, beginning: تو خون خلق الخ. 9.Tarjî’ât, on fol. 324a, beginning : اى زلف تو الخ. 10. Ṭayyibât, on fol. 339b, preceded by a فهرست, on fol.333a; beginning: اوّل دفتر بنام الخ 11.Badâ’i’, on fol. 464b, preceded by a فهرست , on fol. 461a; beginning:الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الخ. 12.Khawâtîm, or as they are called here more fully, Ghazaliyyât-i-Khawâtîm (غزليّات خواتيم), on fol. 523b, preceded by a فهرست , on fol. 522a; beginning: سپاس و حمد بى پايان الخ. 13.Early ghazals, on fol. 544a, preceded by a فهرست, on fol. 543a; beginning: اى يار ناگزير الخ . 14.Ṣâḥibiyyah, beginning, on fol. 554a, with the usual short prose-introduction; the first poem begins here thus: ثنا و حمد بى پایان خدارا كه صنعش در وجود آورد مارا (see the same initial bait in Nos. 681 and 683 of the Bodleian Cat., coll. 528 and 530). 15.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 586a, beginning: تو آن نكردۀ الخ. 16.Khabîthât, on fol. 589b, beginning with the usual prose-preface; the first initial poem begins thus: عارفى چشم دل بروى داشت الخ (identical with the beginning in No. 1118 in this Cat., fol. 462b) On fol. 600a there are added (as part of the Khabîthât) the Hazliyyât, beginning: (read اللعين) اللعن الشيطان الخ. 17.Rubâ’iyyât, on fol. 606a, beginning : هر ساعتم اندرون الخ. 18.Mufradât, on fol. 617b, beginning: السّعى فى دمى الخ (read و كلّ عدوّ بالغ) وكلّ بالغ (corresponding to fol. 374a, last line, in No. 1117 in this Cat.). The Muḍḥikât are wanting in this copy. An index on the fly-leaves. No. 407, ff. 623, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 17; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; the first four pages luxuriously ornamented; splendidly illuminated frontispieces or smaller headings at the beginning of each part; size, 9½ in. by 5¾ in.

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