کلیات سعدی

Walters Ms. W.617, Collected works (Kulliyat)

Walters Ms. W.617, Collected works (Kulliyat)

Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī

كليات سعدى

Saʿdī (author)

Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī Shīrāzī (author)

مشرف الدين بن مصلح سعدى شيرازى (author)

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. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W617/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Ten illustrations; two illuminated medallions with table of contents (fihrist-i kullīyāt) inscribed in compartments (fols. 1b-2a); double-page 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

fol. 1b Illuminated medallion with table of contents Medallion; frontispiece This is one of two facing illuminated medallions with the manuscript's table of contents inscribed in compartments.

fol. 2a Illuminated medallion with table of contents Medallion; frontispiece This is one of two facing illuminated medallions with the manuscript's table of contents inscribed in compartments.

fol. 2b Princely entertainment in a palace Illustration; frontispiece The is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece. A couple is entertained by a dancer and musicians.

fol. 3a Courtiers in a garden Illustration; frontispiece This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece.

fol. 3b Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī Frontispiece 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 Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī Frontispiece 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 Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i Gulistān Incipit; titlepiece This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i Gulistān in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 74a Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a student Illustration Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a youth who takes Arabic lessons from a teacher.

fol. 95b Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i Bustān Incipit; titlepiece This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i Bustān in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 136b Jesus and his disciples are met by two men who ask for forgiveness Illustration

fol. 173b Joseph and Zulaykha Illustration

fol. 177a Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī Incipit; titlepiece This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 184a Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī Incipit; titlepiece This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 191a Entertainment in a garden Illustration

fol. 222b Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt Incipit; titlepiece This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 270a Entertainment in a garden Illustration A cupbearer, referred to in the text, pours wine for the others.

fol. 306a The two poets Saʿdī and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī Illustration Saʿdī meets Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, who is dancing in mystical observance.

fol. 306b Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i badāyiʿ Incipit; titlepiece This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i badāyiʿ in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 328a Couple in a garden being served wine Illustration

fol. 381a Saʿdī in a landscape Illustration Saʿdī sits in a garden and is served melon.

fol. 390b Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i khabisāt Incipit; titlepiece This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i khabisāt in white ink on a gold ground.

1st Rabīʿ I 934 AH / 1527 CE

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

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1527

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