[IO Islamic 223] كّلّيات كاتبی

• Kulliyyât-i-Kâtibî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1292 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 223 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1292

The same.

Contents:

Ḳaṣîdas, intermixed with tarjî’banda, on fol. 1^b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

Ghazals, arranged alphabetically, on fol. 84^b, beginning as in the two preceding copies.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 180^a, beginning: داماد نبي شير خدا صدر امين الخ.

Four mathnawîs (the Dilrubâi is wanting in this copy) in the following order:

1.Gulshan-i-Abrâr, on fol. 187^b.

2.Majma’-albaḥrain, with the prose-preface, on fol. 210^b; beginning of the poem on fol. 212^a.

3.Dah bâb, on fol. 243^b.

4.Sî Nâma, on fol. 278^b.

No date.

No. 223, ff. 316, 2 coll., each ll. 20; beautiful Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated headings, with Kûfic inscriptions, on ff. 1^b, 84^b, 187^b, 210^b, 243^b, and 278^b; size, 8^3/8 in. by 4^3/4 in.