[IO Islamic 1260] كلّيّات سعدى
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<li><strong>Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.</strong></li>
<li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1126 in the India Office collections.</strong></li>
<li><strong>[metadata:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Ethé</strong></a><strong><em>, </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> </a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a> <strong>number 1260 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li>
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<p>1126</p>
<p>The same.</p>
<p>A great number of leaves in this copy, especially in the beginning and towards the end, are so firmly glued together, that it is impossible to separate them without tearing them to pieces. The contents, so far as they can be ascertained, are as follows:</p>
<p>A.<em>Centre-columns</em>:</p>
<p>1.The collector’s preface, on fol. 2<sup>a</sup>.</p>
<p>2.Seven risâlas, as it seems; the first, the beginning of which can be quoted, is the third of the usual copies, on fol. 48<sup>b</sup> (رسالۀ سيوم در جواب صاحب ديوان); the <em>fourth</em>, در عقل و عشق, begins (without a heading) on fol. 52<sup>a</sup>; the <em>fifth</em> ( رسالۀ پنجم در نصيحة الملوك), on fol. 56<sup>b</sup>; the <em>sixth</em>, containing the <em>second</em> <em>story</em> only of the three, viz. the نصيحت انكيانو (just as No. 1121 in this Cat.) begins on fol. 77<sup>a</sup> with the simple heading شيخ ميفرمايد ; the <em>seventh</em> is the <em>third</em> story (رسالۀ ملك شمس الدين) of the usual sixth risâlah, beginning, on fol. 81<sup>a</sup>: در زمان حكومت ملك الخ.</p>
<p>3.Gulistân, on fol. 83<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>4.Ṭayyibât, on fol. 230<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>5.Hazliyyât, on fol. 428<sup>b</sup> (first heading: المجلس الاوّل بالهزل).</p>
<p>6.Rubâ’iyyât and Fardiyyât, on fol. 445<sup>b</sup>, beginning: هر ساعتم اندرون الخ.</p>
<p>B.<em>Margin-column</em>:</p>
<p>7.Persian ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 2<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>8.Marâthi, on fol. 45<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>9.Mulamma’ât, on fol. 55<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>10.Tarji’ât, on fol. 65<sup>a</sup>. All four parts begin in the usual way.</p>
<p>11.Bûstân, on fol. 78<sup>b</sup>, beginning : .بنام خداوند جان آفرين الخ</p>
<p>12.Badâ’i’, on fol. 281<sup>b</sup>, beginning as in No. 1124 in this Cat.: اى كه انكار كنى الخ.</p>
<p>13.Khawâtîm, on fol. 370<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>14.Early ghazals, on fol. 401<sup>b</sup>.</p>
<p>15.Ṣâḥibiyyah, on fol. 412<sup>b</sup>, beginning with the initial poem of Nos. 1118 and 1119 in this Cat.:</p>
<p>نگین ختم رسالت محمّد عربی الخ.</p>
<p>An index on the fly-leaf. There are wanting in this copy the <em>first</em> story of the <em>sixth</em> risâlah, the Arabic ḳaṣîdas, the Khabithât, Muḳaṭṭa’ât, and Muḍḥikât. No date.</p>
<p>No. 1260, ff. 472, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 10, and a third on the margin, ll. 20; Nasta’lîḳ; splendid ornaments throughout the copy; beautifully illuminated frontispieces on ff. 83<sup>b</sup>, 230<sup>b</sup>, 370<sup>b</sup>, 401<sup>b</sup>, 412<sup>b</sup>, and 428<sup>b</sup>; size, 11½ in by 6½ in.</p>
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