[IO Islamic 2486] رباعيّات سحابى

• Rubâ’iyyât-Saḥâbî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1480 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 2486 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1480

Rubâ’iyyât-Saḥâbî (رباعيّات سحابى).

654 rubâ’îs (besides some additional ones on the margin) by Maulânâ Saḥâbî of Astarâbâd (according to Taḳî Auḥadî of Shûshtar), usually called Najafî, because he had settled in Najaf, who died A.H. 1010 (A.D. 1601, 1602); comp. Bodleian Cat., No. 1063; Rieu ii. p. 672; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 42 (No. 587) and 552, 553; see also Haft Iḳlîm, No. 1171 (col. 467 in this Cat.); Khulâṣat-alafkâr, No. 130 (col. 307 in the Bodleian Cat.), and W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., pp. 925 and 926 (where, by a mistake, the patron of the poet is called Shâh ‘Abbâs II, instead of ‘Abbâs I or the Great).

In A. Sprenger, loc. cit., the collection of Saḥâbî’s rubâ’îs is styled حقائق معنوى .

The quatrains are arranged alphabetically, and begin:

معنى فعل است هر بد و نيكورا

در پردۀ قول کرده پنهان اورا

The initial rubâ’î of Sprenger’s and Rieu’s copies is not found in this selection. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2486, ff. 92-157^a, five rubâ’îs in a page; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8¼ in. by 5 in.