[IO Islamic 59] ديوان سعدى

• Dîwân-i-Sa’dî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1131 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 59 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Dîwân-i-Sa’dî (ديوان سعدى).

Sa’dî’s minor poems, arranged in a way which differs from all the other collections of the same title, both in the preceding copies (see No. 1121 and 1127) and in those of other libraries (see, for instance, Bodleian Cat., Nos. 692-697, and Rieu ii. p. 601^b). It contains merely the usual parts of a common dîwân, i.e. ḳaṣidas (on ff. 1^b-44^a), tarjî’bands (on ff. 44^a-48^a), and ghazals in alphabetical order, with a few mathnawî-baits at the end (on ff. 48^a-232).

The so-called ḳaṣidas practically agree with the Ṭayyibât of other copies, beginning in the usual way: اوّل دفتر بنام ايزد دانا الخ .

The tarjî’bands begin: در عهد تو اى نگار دلبند الخ (corresponding to the initial bait in No. 1127 in this Cat.).

The ghazals open with the rhyme-letter ب , and begin:

زمن مپرس که از دست او دلم چونست

ازو مپرس که انگشتهاش پر خونست

No date.

No. 59, ff. 232, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece, the margin sprinkled with various colours; size, 9^3/8 in. by 5^1/4 in.