[IO Islamic 609] انتخاب ديوان سعدى

• Intikhâb-i-dîwân-i-Sa’dî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1132 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 609 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Intikhâb-i-dîwân-i-Sa’dî (انتخاب ديوان سعدى).

Short extracts from Sa’dî’s minor poems, consisting of ḳaṣîdas and ghazals, with a few ḳiṭ’as and rubâ’îs at the end.

Beginning:شكر و سپاس و نعمت و منّت خدايرا (the usual beginning of the قصائد فارسيّه , see the preceding copies).

No date.

No. 609, ff. 215^b-244, 2 centre-coll., each ll. 15, and a third on the margin, ll. 24-28; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages richly ornamented; a drawing on fol. 244^b; size, 9^3/4 in. by 5^1/2 in.