[IO Islamic 332] كلّيّات سعدى

• Kulliyyây-i-Sa’dî.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1124 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 332 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1124

The same.

Another exquisitely written and most splendidly ornamented copy, likewise without a date.

Contents:

1.Six risâlas, in the following curious arrangement: the first corresponds to the second of the usual copies, i.e. the مجالس خمسه or five homilies, on ff. 4^b, 6^a, 9^a, 10^b, last line, and 13^b, beginning: الحمد لله الذى خلق الخ; the second is identical with the usual third, styled here در بيان صاحب ديوان و جواب, on fol. 18^b margin; the third is the usual fourth (therefore correctly called here (رسالۀ چهارم , styled در علم و عشق, on fol. 20^a; the fourth ( called correctly رسالۀ پنجم) corresponds to the usual fifth, styled در نصيحت ملوك, on fol. 21^b margin; The fifth to the second story of the usual sixth (therefore called here رسالۀ دوم در نصيحت ملك انكيانو), beginning: معلوم شد كه خسرو عادل الخ ; the sixth to the third story of the same ( called here رسالۀ سيوم در مدح ملك شمس الدين تازیگو), beginning: در زمان حكومت ملك عادل الخ. There are consequently missing the collector’s preface, the usual first risâlah در تقرير ديباچه, and the first story, رسالۀ ملاقات اباقا, of the usual sixth risâlah.

2.Gulistân, on fol. 34^b.

3.Bûstân, on fol. 96^b.

4.Arabic ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 166^b.

5.Persian ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 173^b.

6.Marâthî, on fol. 197^b.

7.Mulamma’ât, on fol. 201^b.

8.Tarjî’ât, on fol. 205^b.

9. Ṭayyibât, on fol. 211^b. All theses parts begin as in the preceding copy.

10.Badâ’i’, on fol. 288^b, beginning: اى كه انكار كنى عالم درويشانرا الخ (corresponding to No. 1117 in this Cat., Fol. 254^a, first line).

11.Khawâtîm, on fol. 322^b.

12.Early ghazals, on fol. 335^b. Beginning of both parts as usual.

13.Ṣâḥibiyyah, on fol. 342^b, with the usual pros-preface. The initial poem is the same as in Nos. 1118 and 1119 in this Cat., viz. نگين ختم رسالت الخ.

14.Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 357^b, beginning : تو آن نكردۀ الخ.

15.Muṭâyabât (or Khabîthât), on fol. 359^a margin, beginning:.قال السّعدى الخ

The Rubâ’iyyât, Mufradât, and Muḍḥikât are wanting here.

No. 332, ff. 366, 2 center-coll., each ll. 19, And a third on the margin, ll. 14; small, but clear Nasta’lîḳ; the whole copy beautifully embellished throughout; illuminated frontispieces, with luxurious ornaments on the same and the following page, on ff. 4^b, 34^b, 96^b, 166^b, 173^b, 211^b, 288^b, 322^b, 335^b, and 342^b; very carefully drawn pictures on ff. 1^b (Sa’dî’s likeness), 2^b, 3^a, 4^a, 18^a, 66^b, 100^b, 130^b, 181^b, 209^b, 228^b, 233^b, 250^a, 285^a, 310^b, 359^b, 363^b, 364^b, 365^a, and 366^a; size, 10^3/4 in. by 6^1/3 in.