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NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages in order, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front� for a Western manuscript.
This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
Label: This illustration depicts Joseph (Yūsuf) being sold into slavery. fol. 339b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Bādāyiʿ Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i bādāyiʿ. fol. 358b: Title: Shīrīn paying a visit to Farhād Form: Illustration Text: Bādāyiʿ fol. 386a: Title: Khusraw before Shīrīn's gate Form: Illustration Text: Khavātīm Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Binding
The binding date is undetermined. Dark brown leather (no flap); rich decoration in middle and side panels, brushed with gold; dentelle-style doublures on a blue background
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Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Marās̱ī Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i Marās̱ī. fol. 237b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Qaṣāʾid-i ʿArabī Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i qaṣāʾid-i ʿArabī. fol. 241a: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Tarjīʿāt Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i tarjīʿāt. fol. 246b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Tayyibāt Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt. fol. 250a: Title: Joseph at Zulaykhā’s party Form: Illustration Text: Tayyibāt Label: This illustration depicts Joseph (Yūsuf) at Zulaykhā’s party. fol. 285a: Title: Laylā and Majnūn faint at the sight of each other Form: Illustration Text: Tayyibāt fol. 315a: Title: Joseph being sold into slavery Form: Illustration Text: Tayyibāt
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fol. 93b: Title: A drunk judge discovered sleeping with a boy Form: Illustration Text: Gulistān fol. 116b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān) Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān). fol. 125a: Title: A vizier accused of treachery by another vizier Form: Illustration Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān) fol. 136b: Title: An honest peasant being spared from execution by a tyrant king Form: Illustration Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān) fol. 165a: Title: A prince of Ganjah with his drinking companions Form: Illustration Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān) fol. 203b: Title: Zulaykhā kissing Joseph's feet Form: Illustration Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān) Label: This illustration depicts Zulaykhā kissing Joseph’s (Yūsuf's) feet. fol. 207b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Qaṣāʾid-i Fārsī Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Qaṣāʾid-i Fārsī. fol. 233b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
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now missing); illuminated titlepieces; framing lines in black and gold Decoration
fol. 1b: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece (the original now lost). fol. 2a: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece. fol. 40b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Gulistān Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i Gulistān. fol. 46b: Title: Battle scene Form: Illustration Text: Gulistān fol. 58b: Title: A king and a dervish Form: Illustration Text: Gulistān fol. 83a: Title: A boy shoots an arrow through a ring Form: Illustration Text: Gulistān Label: This image illustrates that sometimes children do by chance the things that adults cannot do despite all their wisdom and experience. The story describes how a Persian king puts a ring on a pole, asking his subjects to shoot through its center. Each of his 400 men fail, while a boy shoots an arrow directly through it.
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Support material
Paper Laid paper
Extent
Foliation: ii+443+iii
Collation
Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos
Dimensions
14.5 cm wide by 25.0 cm high
Written surface
8.0 cm wide by 16.5 cm high
Layout
Columns: 3 Ruled lines: 17 Outer column written diagonally; framing lines in black and gold
Contents
fols. 1b - 443a: Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī Incipit: Text note: Contains introduction (seven risālahs, fols. 1b-40a), Gulistān (fols. 40b-116a), Saʿdīnāmah (Bustān) (fols. 116b-207a), Qaṣā’id-i Fārsī (fols. 207b-233a), Marās̱ī (fols. 233b-240a), Qaṣāʾid-i ʿArabi (in the margin, fols. 237b-241a), Tarjīʿāt (fols. 241a-246a), Ṭayyibāt (fols. 246b-339a), Badāyiʿ (fols. 339b-380b), Khavātīm (in the margin, fols. 380b-396b), Ghazalīyāt-i qadīm (fols. 396b-402a), Kitāb-i ṣāḥibīyah (fols. 402b-421b), Muqaṭṭaʿāt (in the margin, fols. 421b-423b), Khabīs̱āt (fols. 424a-432b), al-Majlis alawwal fī al-hazl (in the margin, fols. 432b-434b), alMajlis al-thānī fī al-hazl (fols. 435b-436b), al-Majlis althalith fī al-hazl (fols. 437a-438b), Kitāb-i maz̤āḥik (fol. 439a), Rubāʿīyāt (fols. 439b-441b), and Fardīyāt (fols. 442a-443a) Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script in black, with some words in gold and blue Decoration note: Thirteen illustrations; double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a, original fol. 1b
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Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.616
Descriptive Title
Collected works (Kulliyat)
Text title
Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī Vernacular:
Author
Authority name: Saʿdī As-written name: Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī Shīrāzī Name, in vernacular: Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 691 AH / 1292 CE
Abstract
This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the collected works (Kullīyāt) of Saʿdī (d. 691 AH / 1292 CE). The text, which was completed on 10 Jumādá II 926 AH / 1520 CE, is written in nastaʿlīq script in black, with incidentals in gold and blue. The codex originally opened with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), although fol. 1b was replaced at some point in the manuscript's history. There are thirteen paintings illustrating the text, and illuminated incipit pages introduce the beginning of each individual work. The gold-brushed brown leather binding with floral and vine decoration seems to be contemporary with, although not original to, the manuscript.
Date
10 Jumādá II 926 AH / 1520 CE
Origin
Iran
Form
Book
Genre
Literary -- Prose
Genre
Literary -- Poetry
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.
Colophon
443a: Transliteration: tamma al-kitāb bi-ʿawn al-Malik alWahhāb /1/ fī ʿashr [sic] Jumādá al-Thāni sanat 926 /2/ Comment: In Arabic, giving only the date of copying
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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.
A digital facsimile of selections fromWalters Ms. W.616, Collected works (Kulliyat) Title: Kullﾄｫyﾄ》-i Saﾊｿdﾄｫ
Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode Published 2011