Label:Walters Ms. W.618, Collected works (Kulliyat)
Title:Walters Ms. W.618, Collected works (Kulliyat), Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī, كليات سعدى
Contributor:Saʿdī (author), Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī Shīrāzī (author), مشرف الدين بن مصلح سعدى شيرازى (author), ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaykh Murshid al-Kātib (scribe)
Description:This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the collected works (Kulliyāt) of Saʿdī (d. 691 AH / 1292 CE). It was written by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaykh Murshid al-Kātib in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The manuscript opens with an illuminated medallion (fol. 2a), followed by a double-page illustrated frontispeice (fols. 2b-3a) and a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a). The text is illustrated with seven additional paintings (fols. 18a, 31b, 49b, 70b, 88a, 101a, and 106b). The brown leather binding is incorrectly bound with the flap appearing on the right side instead of the left.
For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W618/description.html, The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic., Seven illustrations (fols. 18a, 31b, 49b, 70b, 88a, 101a, and 106b); illuminated frontispiece with medallion (fol. 2a); double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a); double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a); illuminated incipit pages (fols. 4b, 124b, and 131a); illumination after fol. 136 not supplied; framing lines in blue, green, gold, and black, fol. 2a Frontispiece with illuminated medallion Frontispiece; medallion, fol. 2b Double-page illustrated frontispiece Frontispiece; illustration This is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a banquet. The inscriptions contain honorific titles as well as poetic verses., fol. 3a Double-page illustrated frontispiece Frontispiece; illustration This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting figures feasting outside and walking toward the banquet shown on the opposite side., fol. 3b Double-page illuminated frontispiece Frontispiece; incipit This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece introducing the text of the Gulistān., fol. 4a Double-page illuminated frontispiece Frontispiece; incipit This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece introducing the text of the Gulistān., fol. 18a A maid dipped in the sea as a cure for her fear of water Illustration, fol. 31b A wrestling match Illustration, fol. 49b A supposedly pious man being fanned by a slave and watched by a king who is surprised at his hypocrisy Illustration, fol. 70b A boy shoots an arrow through a ring placed on top of a dome and claims it Illustration, fol. 88a A king finds a judge inebriated Illustration, fol. 101a Saʿdī surrenders his arms to two Indian robbers Illustration, fol. 106b Saʿdī and a dervish go to settle their quarrel before a judge Illustration, 10th century AH / 16th CE, Invocation yā kabīkaj (fol. 1a), List of books, by an anonymous owner, which were in his house in Tehran (fol. 1b), Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Language:Persian, Arabic
Format:paper, image/jpeg
Date:1501
Attribution:All Walters manuscript images and descriptions provided here are copyrighted © The Walters Art Museum.