[IO Islamic 2783] كلّيّات عرفى

• Kulliyyât-i-’Urfî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1452 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 2783 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1452

Another copy of the same Kulliyyât.

This copy contains:

1.A prose-preface, usually styled رسالۀ نفس نفيس (see W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 901, and Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 261), on fol. 1^b, beginning: حمدى كه از نهايت شايستگی منزّه از شائبۀ تعيّن و تخصيص آمده الخ. This preface is found in No. 1053 of the Bodleian Cat. too.

2.Majma’-alabkâr, on fol. 7^b, beginning as in the preceding copy.

3.Khusrau u Shîrîn, or rather Farhâd u Shîrîn, on fol. 50^b, likewise beginning as in the preceding copy.

4.Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 64^b, beginning: اقبال كرم ميگزد ارباب همم را الخ, see the remark in the preceding copy.

5.Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 134^b, beginning, as most copies do (see the preceding copy):

اى دل راهزن كه از عرشم – بحضيض ثرى فرستادى

6.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, except the first two; beginning of the initial ghazal, on fol. 144^b:

اى نه فلك ز خوشۀ صنع تو دانۀ

وز قصر كبرياى تو عرش آشيانۀ

Beginning of the first alphabetical ghazal the same as in the preceding copy.

7.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 208^b.

Dated the 3rd of Jumâdâ-alawwal, A.H. 1066 (A.D. 1656, Feb. 28).

No. 2783, ff. 226, 2 coll., each ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b, 7^b, 50^b, 64^b, and 144^b; size, 7^3/4 in. by 4^3/8 in.