collected works (kulliyat), walters art museum ms. w.617

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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized 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 atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages inorder, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”for a Western manuscript.

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Label: Saʿdī meets Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, who is dancingin mystical observance.

fol. 306b:Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i badāyiʿForm: Incipit; titlepieceText: Kitāb-i badāyiʿLabel: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-ibadāyiʿ in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 328a:Title: Couple in a garden being served wineForm: Illustration

fol. 381a:Title: Saʿdī in a landscapeForm: IllustrationLabel: Saʿdī sits in a garden and is served melon.

fol. 390b:Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i khabisātForm: Incipit; titlepieceText: Kitāb-i khabisātLabel: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-ikhabisāt in white ink on a gold ground.

Binding The binding is not original.

Brown leather (without flap) decorated with a simple panelframe

Bibliography Richard, Francis. Splendeurs persanes: manuscrits du XIIeau XVIIe siècle. (Paris: Bibliotheque nationale, 1997), no.50.

Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris:Bibliotheque nationale, 1989), nos. 238-9.

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fol. 136b:Title: Jesus and his disciples are met by two men whoask for forgivenessForm: Illustration

fol. 173b:Title: Joseph and ZulaykhaForm: Illustration

fol. 177a:Title: Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabīForm: Incipit; titlepieceText: Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabīLabel: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-iʿArabī in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 184a:Title: Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i FārsīForm: Incipit; titlepieceText: Qaṣāyid-i FārsīLabel: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-iFārsī in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 191a:Title: Entertainment in a gardenForm: Illustration

fol. 222b:Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i ṭayyibātForm: Incipit; titlepieceText: Kitāb-i ṭayyibātLabel: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-iṭayyibāt in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 270a:Title: Entertainment in a gardenForm: IllustrationLabel: A cupbearer, referred to in the text, pours winefor the others.

fol. 306a:Title: The two poets Saʿdī and Jalāl al-Dīn RūmīForm: Illustration

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fol. 3a:Title: Courtiers in a gardenForm: Illustration; frontispieceLabel: This is the left side of a double-page illustratedfrontispiece.

fol. 3b:Title: Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor ofSaʿdīForm: FrontispieceLabel: This is the right side of a double-pageilluminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdīinscribed in the upper and lower panels.

fol. 4a:Title: Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor ofSaʿdīForm: FrontispieceLabel: This is the left side of a double-page illuminatedfrontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī inscribed inthe upper and lower panels.

fol. 32b:Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i GulistānForm: Incipit; titlepieceText: Kitāb-i GulistānLabel: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-iGulistān in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 74a:Title: Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a studentForm: IllustrationLabel: Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a youth who takesArabic lessons from a teacher.

fol. 95b:Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i BustānForm: Incipit; titlepieceText: Kitāb-i BustānLabel: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-iBustān in white ink on a gold ground.

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222b-306a); Kitāb-i badāyiʿ (fols. 306b-342b); Kitāb-ikhavātīm (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 khabīsāt (fols. 390b-399a); al-Majlis al-awwalmin al-hazl (fols. 399a-401b); al-Majlis al-thānī minal-hazl (fols. 401b-403a); al-Majlis al-thālith min al-hazl (fols. 403a-405a); and Kitāb-i muzḥikāt (fols.405a-406a)Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script, mainly in blackbut also in gold, blue, and red inkDecoration note: Ten illustrations; two illuminatedmedallions with table of contents (fihrist-i kullīyāt)inscribed in compartments (fols. 1b-2a); double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a); double-pageilluminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a); titlepieces forindividual works inscribed with titles in white ink on agold background

Decoration fol. 1b:Title: Illuminated medallion with table of contentsForm: Medallion; frontispieceLabel: This is one of two facing illuminated medallionswith the manuscript's table of contents inscribed incompartments.

fol. 2a:Title: Illuminated medallion with table of contentsForm: Medallion; frontispieceLabel: This is one of two facing illuminated medallionswith the manuscript's table of contents inscribed incompartments.

fol. 2b:Title: Princely entertainment in a palaceForm: Illustration; frontispieceLabel: The is the right side of a double-page illustratedfrontispiece. A couple is entertained by a dancer andmusicians.

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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 wa-ḥusn tawfīqih /3/ fī yawm al-thulathā ghurrat Rabīʿ al-awwal /4/ sanat arbaʿ wa-thalathīn wa-tisʿimi<ʾ>ah al-hijrīyah /5/ al-nabawīyah al-muṣṭafawīyah ḥāmidan li-Llāh wa-muṣalliyan /6 / wa-musalliman ʿalá Sayyid al-ʿālimīn wa-qablahu /7/ al-ʿāshiqīn wa-al-ʿārifīn Muḥammadal-muṣṭafá /8/ al-amīn wa-ālih wa-aḥibbāʾih wa-atbāʿihajmaʿīn /9/ al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn fī al-buqʿah /10/ al-rafīʿahal-rūzbiḥānīyah qaddasa /11/ sirr sākinihā min aʿālī biqāʿ al-Shīrāz ḥarasahu Allāh min jamīʿ al-āfāt /12/ wa-al-ʿāhāt wa-al-balīyāt /13/Comment: Written in Arabic in red nastaʿlīq script, givingthe 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: 2Ruled lines: 19One text column written horizontally, one written obliquely

Contents fols. 3b - 406a:Title: Kullīyāt-i SaʿdīIncipit:

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 marāsī (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 SaʿdīVernacular:

Note: Title appears on fol. 1b, fol. 4a, and on tail edge ofcodex

Author Authority name: SaʿdīAs-written name: Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī ShīrāzīName, in vernacular:

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 691 AH / 1292CE); 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 collectedworks (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 theArabic colophon, was completed in Shiraz (Iran) on the 1stRabīʿ I 934 AH / 1527 CE. The poet's name, given as Muṣliḥ-i Dīn Shaykh Saʿdī, is inscribed in the illuminated headpieceon fol. 3b. The codex opens with two illuminated medallionsinscribed with the book's contents (fols. 1b-2a), followedby a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a). Thetext begins with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols.3b-4a). There are ten illustrations in total. The binding is notoriginal 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.

This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized 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 atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2011

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.617, Collected works (Kulliyat)Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

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