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1 copy of Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī Shirāzī by Saʻdī

Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Compiler: ʿAlī bin Aḥmad Abī Bakr of Behistun
Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī Shirāzī
Title: كليات سعدی شيرازی

The complete works of Shaykh Saʻdī‏.

Incipit: شكر وسپاس معبودى را جلت قدرته كه آفريننده مخلوقات عالمست
Language(s): Persian and Arabic
1. ff. 6v.-9r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah-i avval dar taqrīr dībāchah
Title: رساله أول در تقرير ديباچه

A short essay on prefaces.

2. ff. 9r.-11r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-awwal
Title: المجلس الأول

The first of the Five Assemblies (رساله دويم مجالس پنجگانه) .

3. ff. 11r.-13r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-thānī
Title: المجلس الثاني

The Second Assembly.

4. ff. 13r.-14v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-thālith
Title: المجلس الثالث

The Third Assembly.

5. ff. 14v.-16v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-rābiʿ
Title: المجلس الرابع

The Fourth Assembly.

6. ff. 16v.-19v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-khāmis
Title: المجلس الخامس

The Fifth Assembly.

7. ff. 19v.-20r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah-i sīyūm dar suʾāl ṣāḥib-i dīvān
Title: رساله سيوم در سؤال صاحب ديوان

The Question of the Minister of Finance. Text is written in the margin.

8. ff. 20v.-22v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah-i chahārum dar ʿaql va-ʿishq
Title: رساله چهارم در عقل وعشق

An essay on reason and love.

9. ff. 22v.-30r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah-i panjum dar naṣīḥat al-mulūk
Title: رساله پنجم در نصیحه الملوک

Advice to kings.

10. ff. 27v.-30r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah-i shishum al-rasāʾil al-thālithah
Title: رساله ششم الرسائل الثالثة

The three treatises, detailed as follows:

Title: Risālah-i avval dāstān-i Sulṭān Ābāqā
Title: رساله اول داستان سلطان آباقا

Treatise One: The Story of Sulṭān Ābāqā.

Title: Risālah-i davum dar naṣīḥat-i Ankīyānū
Title: رساله دوم در نصيحة انكيانو

Treatise Two: The Counsel of Ankīyānū.

Title: Risālah-i sīyūm dar Malik Shams al-Dīn Tāzī Gū
Title: رسالة سيوم در ملك شمس الدين تازى گو

Treatise Three: Anecdote of King Shams al-Dīn, surnamed Tāzī Gū, or the Arabic Orator.

11. ff. 30r.-86r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Gulistān-i Saʻdī
Title: گلستان سعدی

The Rose Garden.

12. ff. 86v.-165r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Būstān-i Saʻdī
Title: بوستان سعدی

A series of moral stories in verse, in masnavī style. It consists of a preface and ten chapters.

13. ff. 171r.-194r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Qaṣāʾid-i fārsī
Title: قصائد فارسى

Persian qaṣīdahs.

14. f. 194r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i marāthī
Title: كتاب مراثى

Book of Elegies.

15. ff. 198r.-202v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i mulammaʿāt
Title: كتاب ملمعات

Poems with verses alternating between Persian and Arabic.

16. ff. 202v.-207r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Tarjīʿāt
Title: ترجيعات

Tarjīʿ poems.

17. ff. 207r.-284r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt
Title: كتاب طيبات

Poems entitled 'Pure Odours'.

18. ff. 284r.-318r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i badā’i‘
Title: كتاب بدائع

Rhetorical odes.

19. ff. 318v.-331v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i khawātim
Title: كتاب خواتم

Final odes.

20. ff. 331v.-337v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i ghazalīyāt-i qadīm
Title: كتاب غزليات قديم

Early ghazals.

21. ff. 337r.-354r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i Ṣāḥibīyah
Title: كتاب صاحبية

Poems addressed to friends.

22. ff. 354r.-355v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i muqaṭṭa‘āt
Title: كتاب مقطعات

Fragmentary poems.

23. ff. 356r.-362v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i khabīs̲āt
Title: كتاب خبيثات

The Book of Obscenities.

24. ff. 362v.-367v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i muz̤aḥḥikāt
Title: كتاب مضحكات

The Book of Jests.

25. ff. 367v.-375v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i rubāʻīyāt
Title: كتاب رباعيات

Tetrastichs.

26. ff. 375v.-377r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i mufradāt
Title: كتاب مفردات

Hemistichs.

References

no. 1069
Palmer, pp. 158-170

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 381 ff.

Hand(s)

Small and elegant taʻlīq.

Decoration

Gold and green borders

Illuminated ʿunwāns

f. 238 Illustration depicting Khosraw and Shirin.

f. 249 Illustration depicting the sporting game chovgan.

f. 345 Illustration depicting one of the early kings of Persia raising a supplicant.

Seal(s):

The first page bears the seal of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah,‏ ‎Sultan of Golkunda, with the words: حيدر صفدر مرا نعتش نگین دل است العبد محمد قطب شاه سلطان مهر بر حق انكشتر سليمان

History

Origin: Undated

Provenance and Acquisition

This volume was once the property of Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah,‏ ‎Sultan of Golkunda,‏ ‎d. 1565-1612.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on 'E. G. Browne: A supplementary hand-list of the Muhammadan manuscripts, including all those written in the Arabic character, preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 1922', and 'E.H. Palmer A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, London 1870'.

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