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Kulliyyat-i Sa'di

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1 copy of Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī by Shaykh Saʿdī Shīrāzī

Author: Shaykh Saʿdī Shīrāzī شيخ سعدى شيرازى
Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī
Title: كلّيّات سعدى

Large portion of a damaged manuscript, with several lacunae, displacements, and forged catchwords

Illuminated throughout in the Ṣafavid 'commercial' Shīrāz style

Consists of mulammaʿāt, tarjīʿāt, ṭayyibāt, badāʾiʿ (ghazalīyāt-i nau), muṭāyabāt, muz̤ḥikāt, majālis, rasāʾil, rubāʿīyāt, khavātīm, ghazalīyāt-i qadīm, al-ṣāḥibīyah, muqaṭṭaʿāt, mas̲navīyāt, qaṣāʾid, and marās̲ī

Not dated

Language(s): Persian

Physical Description

Form: codex
Extent: 247 ff.
Dimensions (leaf): 146 × 233 mm.

Hand(s)

Calligraphic nastaʿlīq-i khafī

Decoration

Illuminated sarlawḥ or headpiece, interlinear taḥrīr or cloud-shaped gilding filled with rudimentary polychrome scrolling ornament; illuminated margins in gold tashʿīrsāzī or line drawing, depicting birds, beasts, and plants; illuminated rectangular and triangular ʿunvān and decorative panels between cartouches; coloured ink jadāval

Additions:

Main text in ruled panels, with diagonal text of alternating orientation in margins

Binding

Seal(s):
Seals erased (ff. 246v, 247v)

History

Origin: 1570 - 1630 CEShiraz, Fars Province ; Iran

Provenance and Acquisition

William Irvine

Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of Bhitrī

1913-08-15

William Irvine

Record Sources

Based on unpublished description in Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, vol. 3. Available on British Library Digitised Manuscripts, manuscript number: MSS Eur E207/15

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Bibliography

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