This illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the collected works (Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī) of Sa`di (d. 691 AH / 1292 CE) contains, among other works, the Gulistān and the Bustān. It was written in black nastaʿlīq script and, according to the Arabic colophon, was completed in Shiraz (Iran) on the 1st Rabīʿ I 934 AH / 1527 CE. The poet's name, given as Muṣliḥ-i Dīn Shaykh Saʿdī, is inscribed in the illuminated headpiece on fol. 3b. The codex opens with two illuminated medallions inscribed with the book's contents (fols. 1b-2a), followed by a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a). The text begins with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a). There are ten illustrations in total. The binding is not original to the manuscript.
