[IO Islamic 1745] كلّيّات عرفى

• Kulliyyât-i-’Urfî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1453 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 1754 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1453

A defective copy of the same Kulliyyât.

Contents:

1. Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 1^b, beginning: اقبال كرم الخ .

2. Ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 64^b, beginning: اى دل راهزن الخ.

3.Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 73^b, beginning: تحفۀ مرهم الخ ; there is a lacuna after fol. 106; the last bait, on fol. 106^b, corresponds to fol. 78^b, first column, ll. 7 and 8, in No. 1484 (1451 in this Cat.); the first ghazal, on fol. 107^a, is found in No. 1484 on the same page, third column, first line; the second, on fol. 79^b, middle-column, l. 5.

4.Rubâ’îs, on fol. 177^a, beginning as in No. 1484.

5.Majma’-alabkâr, on fol. 193^b, beginning as usual; it is slightly defective at the end, in consequence of a lacuna after fol. 238; the last bait, that appears here, corresponds to No. 1484, fol. 214^a, third column, ll. 9 and 10.

6.Sâḳînâma (ساقينامه), on fol. 239^a, beginning:

بيا ساقى اين تشنگی را بسنج – پس از آرزوى دل ما مرنج

This mathnawî, not found in the other copies of ‘Urfî’s works in the India Office Collection, is noticed in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 65, first line, and p. 901, No. 4; in Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 262, No. 5; and in No. 1052 of the Bodleian Cat.

7.Farhâd u Shîrîn, on fol. 241^b, beginning as usual.

No date; the first thirty-seven leaves partly collated; many baits slightly damaged both at the beginning and end.

No. 1745, ff. 255, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1^b, 73^b, and 193^b; size, 8¼ in. by 4¾ in.