[IO Islamic 2762] كلّيّات سعدى

<ul> <li><strong>Kulliyy&acirc;y-i-Sa&rsquo;d&icirc;.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1128&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 2762 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1128</p> <p>A defective copy of the same.</p> <p>This excellent but defective copy contains:</p> <p>1.Arabic ḳaṣ&icirc;das ( كتاب القصائد العربى), on fol. 1^b, beginning as usual; they break off on fol. 8^b in consequence of a lacuna after that page, in a poem rhyming in ١, which corresponds to the ḳaṣidah, on fol. 345^a, in No. 1117 in this Cat., beginning: يا ملوك الجمال الخ.</p> <p>The last bait here is the last on fol. 345^a in that copy.</p> <p>2.Some ghazals, on ff. 9 and 10, defective both at the beginning and end; the first bait:</p> <p>گرما مقصّريم تو بسيار رحمتى</p> <p>عمرى كه ميرود باميد وفاى تست</p> <p>corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 230^a, l. 4, and belongs in fact to the usual initial poem of the &lsquo;early ghazals&rsquo; (which begins: اى يار ناگزير الخ); it would seem, therefore, as if these two leaves were part of a fuller collection of the غزليّات قديم , but, strange to say, these very &lsquo;early ghazals&rsquo; follow further down, on fol. 145^b sq., in an absolutely complete form with no visible lacuna, into which these stray leaves might fit.</p> <p>3.Mulamma&rsquo;&acirc;t and Muthallath&acirc;t, on ff. 143^a-144^b and 11^a-13^a, beginning as in No. 1125 in this Cat., fol. 189^b: .وقتها يكدم الخ</p> <p>4.Tarj&icirc;&rsquo;&acirc;t (or Murabba&rsquo;&acirc;t, as they are called at the end), on fol. 13^b, beginning; .اى زلف تو الخ</p> <p>5.Ṭayyib&acirc;t, in alphabetical order, on fol. 19^b, beginning: .اوّل دفتر الخ .There is a lacuna after fol. 27; the last bait on fol. 27^b corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 221^a, l. 3 ab infra, the first complete poem, on fol. 28^a to fol. 220^b, last line, in the same copy. Ff. 50 and 51 are turned upside down, and must be read from 51^b backward to 50^a.</p> <p>6.Bad&acirc;&rsquo;i&rsquo;, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 83^b, beginning: الحمد لله ربّ العالمين الخ (see No. 1117 in this Cat.). There is a lacuna after fol. 84; the last bait on fol. 84^b corresponds to No. 1117, fol. 247^a, l. 5 ab infra, and the first complete poem, on fol. 85^a to fol. 263^a, l. 17 in the same copy. There is a second lacuna after fol. 92; the last bait on fol. 92^a corresponds to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 286^b, last line but one (in No. 1117 it cannot be traced); the first complete poem, on fol. 93^a to No. 1117, fol. 253^a, l. 14 (this again cannot be traced in No. 1121).</p> <p>7.Khaw&acirc;tim, on fol.96^b, beginning: سپاس و حمد الخ.</p> <p>8.Ṣ&acirc;ḥibiyyah, on fol. 108^b, with the usual prose-preface, beginning here thus: الله الكافى حسب الخلائق وحده الحمد لله نعمه الخ. The first poem begins here (as in Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 196): ما هذه الدنيا بدار مخلّد الخ.</p> <p>9.Muḳaṭṭa&rsquo;&acirc;t, on fol. 123^b, beginning: گر اهل معرفتی هر چه بنگری خوبست الخ</p> <p>The initial poem of No. 1117, گويند سعديا الخ, is found here, on fol. 130^a.</p> <p>10.Khab&icirc;th&acirc;t, on fol. 131^b, beginning with the usual prose-preface. The initial poem begins:</p> <p>آن شنيدى كه در بلاد شمال الخ</p> <p>(corresponding to No. 1117 in this Cat., fol. 362^a). They break off on fol. 134^b in consequence of a lacuna.</p> <p>11.Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as, short mathnaw&icirc;s, rub&acirc;&rsquo;&icirc;s, and fards, all mixed together, on ff. 135^a-142^b; the ḳiṭ&rsquo;as probably belong either to the Ṣ&acirc;ḥibiyyah or the Muḳaṭṭa&rsquo;&acirc;t (Nos. 8 and 9).</p> <p>12.Early ghazals, on fol. 145^b, beginning:با جوانى سر خوشست اين پيرئ تدبير را الخ (corresponding to No. 1121 in this Cat., fol. 209^a margin, l. 6 ab infra, where, however, با جوانان is read instead of با جوانى); the second poem here begins like the Khaw&acirc;t&icirc;m in No. 1125 in this Cat., fol. 332^a, but in a metrically more correct form: گر ماه من بر افگند از رخ نقابرا الخ .</p> <p>13.The end of the B&ucirc;st&acirc;n, on fol. 179^a, beginning: نكو نام را كس نگيرد اسير الخ. It comprises the last twenty-nine or thirty verses of the <em>ninth</em> and the whole tenth b&acirc;b, corresponding to Graf&rsquo;s ed., p. 429, l. 5 to p. 444, l. 5.</p> <p>No date. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.</p> <p>No. 2762, ff. 182, ll. 23; excellent Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; small illuminated headings on ff. 1^b, 13^b, 19^b, 83^b, 96^b, 108^b, 123^b, 131^b, 143^a, and 145^b; all the columns framed with glit edges; size , 9^5/8 in. by 6^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>