[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. 1^b; but already on the margin of the next page, fol. 2^a, 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. 3^a 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. 5^a margin; I. 2 also belongs to the first risâlah, corresponding to No. 1121, fol. 5^a margin, lin. Penult.; l. 3 already forms part of the first majlis of the second risâlah, corresponding to No. 1121, fol. 6^b, l. 9. The second majlis begins on fol. 6^a, the third on fol. 8^b margin, the fourth on fol. 10^a margin, the fifth on fol. 13^a; the third risâlah, on fol. 18^b margin; the fourth, on fol. 20^a; the fifth, on fol. 21^b; the sixth, comprising the first story only (نصيحت حضرت شيخ سلطان اباقا), on fol. 31^a; the seventh, comprising the third story of the usual sixth risâlah, حكايت ملك شمس الدين, on fol. 32^a; towards the end of this story the copy breaks off, the last words corresponding to No. 1126 in this Cat., fol. 82^b, 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. 18^a size, 9^1/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.