گلستان و بوستان سعدی

Walters Ms. W.619, Two works of Sa`di: the Rose garden (Gulistan) and the Orchard (Bustan)

Walters Ms. W.619, Two works of Sa`di: the Rose garden (Gulistan) and the Orchard (Bustan)

Kitāb-i Gulistān

Kitāb-i Būstān

كتاب كلستان

كتاب بوستان

Saʿdī (author)

Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī Shīrāzī (author)

مشرف الدين بن مصلح سعدي شيرازي (author)

Muḥammad Riz̤ā al-Tabrīzī (scribe)

This illuminated manuscript contains two works by Sa‘dī (d. 691 AH / 1292 CE): the Gulistān (Rose garden) and the Būstān (Orchard). It was copied in 980 AH / 1572 CE by Muḥammad Riz̤ā al-Tabrīzī in Iran. The text of the Gulistān appears in the main area, while that of the Būstān is inscribed obliquely around the main text area on three sides. Both texts are written in black and gold nasta‘līq script. The margins are multi-colored, gold-sprinkled tinted or marbled paper. The original leather binding dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE and has dentelle-style decorated boards and doublures with gold filigree work over a multi-colored ground of blue, green, red, and black. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W619/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.

Double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 2b-4a with folios 3a-3b blank); incipit page with illuminated titlepieces reading Kitāb-i Gulistān-i Shaykh-i Sa’dī in main titlepiece and Kitāb-i Būstan-i Shaykh-i Sa’dī in triangular sidepiece (fol. 4b)

Main text preceded by a triangular titlepiece inscribed with the title of the work: Kitāb-i Būstan-i Shaykh-i Saʿdī

fol. 2b Double-page illuminated frontispiece Frontispiece This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece decorated in gold and polychrome designs.

fol. 4b Incipit page with illuminated titlepieces Incipit; titlepiece This illuminated incipit page bears two titles. In the main titlepiece is inscribed Kitāb-i Gulistān-i Shaykh-i Sa’dī, while Kitāb-i Būstan-i Shaykh-i Sa’dī appears in the triangular sidepiece.

980 AH / 1572 CE

Old shelf mark on tail-edge: 4164

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

Arabic

paper

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1572

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