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1 copy of Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī Shirāzī by Saʻdī

Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī Shirāzī
Title: كليات سعدی شيرازی

The complete works of Shaykh Saʻdī‏.

This copy contains many errors and omissions throughout the text, especially in the prose works.

Language(s): Persian
1. ff. 4v.
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. f. 18v.
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. f. 24v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-thānī
Title: المجلس الثاني

The Second Assembly.

4. f. 33v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-thālith
Title: المجلس الثالث

The Third Assembly.

5. f. 38v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-rābiʿ
Title: المجلس الرابع

The Fourth Assembly.

6. f. 46r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: al-Majlis al-khāmis
Title: المجلس الخامس

The Fifth Assembly.

7. f. 61v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah dar suʾāl ṣāḥib-i dīvān
Title: رساله در سؤال صاحب ديوان

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

8. f. 65v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah dar ʿaql va-ʿishq
Title: رساله در عقل وعشق

An essay on reason and love.

9. f. 65v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah dar naṣīḥat al-mulūk
Title: رساله در نصیحه الملوک

Advice to kings.

10. f. 95r.
Title: Risālah-i naṣīḥat-i Ankīyānū
Title: رساله نصيحة انكيانو

The Counsel of Ankīyānū.

11. f. 100r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah-i Malik Shams al-Dīn Tāzī Gū
Title: رسالة سيوم در ملك شمس الدين تازى گو

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

f. 100r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Risālah-i Sulṭān Ābāqā
Title: رساله سلطان آباقا

The Story of Sulṭān Ābāqā.

13. f. 102v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Gulistān-i Saʻdī
Title: گلستان سعدی

The Rose Garden.

14. f. 4v.
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. Written in margin of this folio.

15. f. 96r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Qaṣāʾid-i ʿarabī
Title: قصائد عربى

Arabic qaṣīdahs.

16. f. 100r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Qaṣāʾid-i fārsī
Title: قصائد فارسى

Persian qaṣīdahs.

17. f. 125r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i marāthī
Title: كتاب مراثى

Book of Elegies.

18. f. 129v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i mulammaʿāt
Title: كتاب ملمعات

Poems with verses alternating between Persian and Arabic.

19. f. 135v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Tarjīʿāt
Title: ترجيعات

Tarjīʿ poems.

20. f. 240r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i badā’i‘
Title: كتاب بدائع

Rhetorical odes.

21. f. 278v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt
Title: كتاب طيبات

Poems entitled 'Pure Odours'.

22. f. 278v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i khabīs̲āt
Title: كتاب خبيثات

The Book of Obscenities.

23. f. 300v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i ghazalīyāt-i qadīm
Title: كتاب غزليات قديم

Early ghazals.

24. f. 301v. margin
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i muz̤aḥḥikāt
Title: كتاب مضحكات

The Book of Jests.

25. f. 309r.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i Ṣāḥibīyah
Title: كتاب صاحبية

Poems addressed to friends.

26. f. 319v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i rubāʻīyāt
Title: كتاب رباعيات

Tetrastichs.

27. f. 334v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i muqaṭṭa‘āt
Title: كتاب مقطعات

Fragmentary poems.

28. f. 337r. margin
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i mufradāt
Title: كتاب مفردات

Hemistichs.

29. f. 384v.
Author: Saʻdī‏ سعدى، مصلح بن عبد الله
Title: Kitāb-i khawātim
Title: كتاب خواتم

Final odes.

References

no. 1070
Palmer, pp. 176-180

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 343 ff.

Hand(s)

Beautifully written taʻlīq.

Decoration

Illuminated ʿunwāns

Numerous miniatures

History

Origin: 1578 CE

Provenance and Acquisition

A note inserted at the beginning of the MS inidcates it was the property of Mr. Boddam of Trinity College.

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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