The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/
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This document is a digital facsimile of 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: Saʿdī meets Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, who is dancing in mystical observance. fol. 306b: Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i badāyiʿ Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Kitāb-i badāyiʿ Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i badāyiʿ in white ink on a gold ground. fol. 328a: Title: Couple in a garden being served wine Form: Illustration fol. 381a: Title: Saʿdī in a landscape Form: Illustration Label: Saʿdī sits in a garden and is served melon. fol. 390b: Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i khabisāt Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Kitāb-i khabisāt Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i khabisāt in white ink on a gold ground. Binding
The binding is not original. Brown leather (without flap) decorated with a simple panel frame
Bibliography
Richard, Francis. Splendeurs persanes: manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siècle. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1997), no. 50. Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 238-9.
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fol. 136b: Title: Jesus and his disciples are met by two men who ask for forgiveness Form: Illustration fol. 173b: Title: Joseph and Zulaykha Form: Illustration fol. 177a: Title: Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī in white ink on a gold ground. fol. 184a: Title: Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī in white ink on a gold ground. fol. 191a: Title: Entertainment in a garden Form: Illustration fol. 222b: Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt in white ink on a gold ground. fol. 270a: Title: Entertainment in a garden Form: Illustration Label: A cupbearer, referred to in the text, pours wine for the others. fol. 306a: Title: The two poets Saʿdī and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī Form: Illustration
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fol. 3a: Title: Courtiers in a garden Form: Illustration; frontispiece Label: This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece. fol. 3b: Title: Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī inscribed in the upper and lower panels. fol. 4a: Title: Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī inscribed in the upper and lower panels. fol. 32b: Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i Gulistān Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Kitāb-i Gulistān Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i Gulistān in white ink on a gold ground. fol. 74a: Title: Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a student Form: Illustration Label: Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a youth who takes Arabic lessons from a teacher. fol. 95b: Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i Bustān Form: Incipit; titlepiece Text: Kitāb-i Bustān Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i Bustān in white ink on a gold ground.
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222b-306a); Kitāb-i badāyiʿ (fols. 306b-342b); Kitāb-i khavātīm (fols. 342b-353b); Kitāb-i ghazaliyāt-i qadīm (fols. 353b-361a); Kitāb-i ṣāḥibīyah (fols. 361b-378b); Kitāb-i muqaṭṭaʿāt (fols. 378b-381a); Kitāb-i rubāʿīyāt (fols. 381a-387b); Kitāb-i mufradāt (fols. 387b-390a); Kitāb-i khabīs̱āt (fols. 390b-399a); al-Majlis al-awwal min al-hazl (fols. 399a-401b); al-Majlis al-thānī min al-hazl (fols. 401b-403a); al-Majlis al-thālith min alhazl (fols. 403a-405a); and Kitāb-i muz̤ḥikāt (fols. 405a-406a) Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script, mainly in black but also in gold, blue, and red ink Decoration note: Ten illustrations; two illuminated medallions with table of contents (fihrist-i kullīyāt) inscribed in compartments (fols. 1b-2a); doublepage illustrated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a); double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a); titlepieces for individual works inscribed with titles in white ink on a gold background Decoration
fol. 1b: Title: Illuminated medallion with table of contents Form: Medallion; frontispiece Label: This is one of two facing illuminated medallions with the manuscript's table of contents inscribed in compartments. fol. 2a: Title: Illuminated medallion with table of contents Form: Medallion; frontispiece Label: This is one of two facing illuminated medallions with the manuscript's table of contents inscribed in compartments. fol. 2b: Title: Princely entertainment in a palace Form: Illustration; frontispiece Label: The is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece. A couple is entertained by a dancer and musicians.
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Colophon
406a: Transliteration: qad waqaʿa al-farāgh min taḥrīrih wa- /1/ tasṭīrih b-ʿawn Allāh al-malik /2/ al-ʿazīz al-ʿalīm waḥusn tawfīqih /3/ fī yawm al-thulathā ghurrat Rabīʿ alawwal /4/ sanat arbaʿ wa-thalathīn wa-tisʿimi<ʾ>ah alhijrīyah /5/ al-nabawīyah al-muṣṭafawīyah ḥāmidan liLlāh wa-muṣalliyan /6 / wa-musalliman ʿalá Sayyid alʿālimīn wa-qablahu /7/ al-ʿāshiqīn wa-al-ʿārifīn Muḥammad al-muṣṭafá /8/ al-amīn wa-ālih wa-aḥibbāʾih wa-atbāʿih ajmaʿīn /9/ al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn fī al-buqʿah /10/ al-rafīʿah al-rūzbiḥānīyah qaddasa /11/ sirr sākinihā min aʿālī biqāʿ alShīrāz ḥarasahu Allāh min jamīʿ al-āfāt /12/ wa-al-ʿāhāt waal-balīyāt /13/ Comment: Written in Arabic in red nastaʿlīq script, giving the place and date of copying
Support material
Paper Cream-colored laid paper
Extent
Foliation: i+406
Collation
Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos
Dimensions
15.5 cm wide by 25.0 cm high
Written surface
9.5 cm wide by 17.0 cm high
Layout
Columns: 2 Ruled lines: 19 One text column written horizontally, one written obliquely
Contents
fols. 3b - 406a: Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī Incipit: Text note: Contains Shish risālāt (fols. 5b-32a); Kitāb-i Gulistān (fols. 32b-95a); Kitāb-i Bustān (fols. 95b-176b); Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī (fols. 177a-183b); Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī (fols. 184a-208b); Kitāb-i marās̱ī (fols. 208b-212b); Kitāb-i mulammaʿāt (fols. 212b-216b); Kitāb-i tarjīʿāt (fols. 216b-222a); Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt (fols.
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Shelf mark
Walters Art Museum Ms. W.617
Descriptive Title
Collected works (Kulliyat)
Text title
Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī Vernacular: Note: Title appears on fol. 1b, fol. 4a, and on tail edge of codex
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); author name given in an illuminated headpiece on fol. 3b reads Muṣliḥ-i Dīn Shaykh Saʿdī
Abstract
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 Muṣliḥi 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.
Date
1st Rabīʿ I 934 AH / 1527 CE
Origin
Shiraz, Iran
Form
Book
Genre
Literary -- Prose
Genre
Literary -- Poetry
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
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This document is a digital facsimile of 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 Walters Ms. W.617, 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