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Title:
Kulliyat-i Sa‘di
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
299 ff.
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Languages:
Arabic
Persian
Scripts:
Arabic
Start Date:
1829
End Date:
1829
Date Range:
1829
Calendar:
Hijri-qamari
Era:
CE
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Names:
Shirazi, Saadi, Persian poet, 1210-1291,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012031438X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100206721
Shirazi, Saadi, Persian poet, 1210-1291,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/000000012031438X,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100206721
‘Abd al-Ḥusayn Iṣfahānī
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Oriental Manuscripts

Or 15959

Kulliyat-i Sa‘di

Contents

1 copy of Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī by Saʻdī

Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī
Title: کلیات سعدی

Collected works of Sa‘dī of Shiraz, without the Khabīs̲āt (indecent verse). For a summary account of the author, see R. Davis, ‘Sa‘dī, Abī ‘Abd Allāh Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ’, in EI2 VIII, p. 719-23 (where the Khabīs̲āt are not mentioned in the categorization of Sa‘dī’s ghazals).

This elegant calligraphic and illuminated copy is the work of one of the great Qajar court calligraphers, ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn Iṣfahānī.

The contents are arranged as follows: 1v, Dībāchah (preface) of the Gulistān; 20v, Gulistān; 61v, Būstān; 123v, Qaṣā’id-i ‘Arabī; 129r, Qaṣā’id-i Fārsī; 146v, Marās̲ī; 149v, Mulamma‘āt; 156v, Tarjī‘āt; 161v, Ṭayyibāt; 223v, Ghazalīyāt-i Badāyi‘; 251v, Khavātim; 261v, Ghazalīyāt-i qadīm; 266v, Ṣāḥibīyah; 281v, Muṭāyabāt va Muz̤ḥikāt; 291r, Rubā‘īyāt; 297r, Mufradāt.

Colophons on folios 123r, 128v, and 291r are dated 1255/1829, those on 291r and 299r being dated Ramaān 1255/November-December 1829.

While 184 manuscripts of Sa‘dī’s Kulliyyāt are listed in Munzavī, FNKhF III, p. 1861-70, the number of extant copies is probably much greater since there must be many in private hands. Other copies in the BL: Add. 5601, Add. 7741, Add. 7742, Add. 7743, Add. 16764, Add. 17961, Add. 24944, Or. 2194, Or. 2948, Or. 2743, Or. 4779, Or. 8680, Or. 8753, Or. 9567, Or. 9870, Or. 10908, Or. 11348, Or. 13949, Or. 14158.

Language(s): Persian and Arabic
Filiation:
Author: Saʻdī سعدى

Physical Description

Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 299 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 243 × 151 mm.
Dimensions (written): 178 × 94 mm.

Layout

Columns:1

Written lines: 18

18 lines in main text panel; 34 written diagonally in outer panel.

Hand(s)

Shikasta-nasta‘līq. Calligrapher ‘Abd al-Ḥusayn Iṣfahānī

Decoration

Fine illuminated headings, with ornate margin illumination on facing pages, on f. 1v, 20v, 61v, 161v, 223v; smaller illuminated headings on f. 123v, 129r, 146v (outer panel), 149v (outer panel), 156v, 251v, 261v, 266v, 281v, 291r, 297r, etc.

Additions:

Binding

Lacquered painted binding of good quality: floral sprays on a sparkled brown ground, with smaller sprays reserved in panels in the borders; doublures with floral sprays in panels and simple scrolls with flowers on a sparkled orange-brown ground.

Seal(s):
Seal impression Yā Raḥīm, dated 1255/1829 f. f. 299r

History

Origin: 1829 1255 AH; 1829 CE ; Iran.

Provenance and Acquisition

Printed library plate of Kitābkhānah-i Fīrūz, with spaces for details blank on back endpaper.

2003-05-02

Acquired from Christies sale, lot 443; 2 May 2003

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in M.I. Waley, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts acquired 2000-2014.

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