45. The Ruba‘iyat of Abu Sa‘id ibn Abu’l Khayr. 
(No. II.) 
Edited by Mavtavi ‘ABpu’L WALI. 
In a late issue of this Journal (Vol. V, No. 11[N.8.], for De- 
cember, 1909, pp. 421—456) I published 228 Quatrains of Shaykh 
Abu Sa‘id ibn Abu’l Khayr from the only manuscript of the 
Society, No. 1398 old (62 O(a) new). With a few exceptions, 
all the Ruba‘ yet were saeeuctiy published from sources noted 
in the preface 
After the publication of those verses Mr. H. Beveridge, 
C.S. (Retd.), informed me of the existence, in the British Mu- 
seum, of a copy of the Quatrains of the saint. At my request 
ogue, 
Vol. II, page 7380. This MS. and the Eobresae of Sahabi, 
Mahvi of Ardabil and of Baba Afzal-i-Kashi are bound in the 
same volume. The MS. of Abu Sa‘id’s Quatrains was written 
{ have compared these Quatrains with those published in 
the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Like the Society’s 
MS., the Briti Museum includes m 
Quatrains commonly ascribed to others. The B.M. collection 
contains h there certain words and phrases which 
prima facie are inaccurate. These I have removed as far as 
possible by collating with certain biographies of the saint. A 
few Quatrains are common in both the MSS. and the rest are new 
or not quite similar. Ihave arranged the latter alphabetically 
according to the last letter of the distiches and have num- 
bered them consecutively, commencing from No. 229, as the 
previous edition of the Quatrains ended with No. 228. 
Twenty-two of the Quatrains are common or almost simi- 
lar in both, and they have been excluded from the present 
text.! The following Ruba‘iyat already published in the Jour- 
nal, A.S.B., are also to be found in the British Museum Codex 
Nos. 47, 25, 28, 32, 45, 58, 65, 69, 70, 83, 120, 122 123, 146, 
161, 168, 176, 190, 193, 197, 207, "212. Of these Quatrains 
w Qat‘as and Quatrains written on the margin of the MS. 
aes a eae excluded. 
