Item Summary

The complete works of Saʻdī.

Descriptive Information

Title
کتاب کليات جناب مصلح الدين شيخ سعدى شيرازى.
Transliterated Title
Kitāb-i Kullīyāt-i janāb-i Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Shaykh Saʻdī Shīrāzī.
Call Number
Oversize Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 409Lq
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dc47429p46q
Language
Persian
Date Created
1400-1799
Extent
272 leaves : paper ; 280 x 168 (153-160 x 85) mm bound to 293 x 73 mm.
Provenance
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, 1904, from the books of Amīn ibn Ḥasan al-Ḥulwānī al-Madanī al-Ḥanafī (Medina).
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Martinovitch, N.N. Catalogue of Turkish and Persian manuscripts (1926), no. 409
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
Leaf 1b: Preface
leaves 2b-20a: Risālāt
leaves 20b-61b: Gulistān
leaves 62a-130b: Būstān
leaves 131a-272b: Dīvān.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (fol. 1a).
Label also appears on label on spine. Folio 1 is a replacement page.
Collation: Paper ; fol. i (later paper) + 272 + i (later paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 14 lines per page in one or two columns ; outer frame of text written on the diagonal.
Description: Watermarks (coat-of-arms with three stars and roman-alphabet initials "FG",; coat-of-arms with a bird and roman-alphabet letters "..poiler[?]"; stars and roman-alphabet lettering "picardo"; Fortuna (banner text: Babel); roman-alphabet lettering "Al Masso", and "..ravezza[?]") ; MS in good condition.
Binding Note
Later type III (without flap) binding in light brown leather. Blind-stamped mandorla with pendants and blind-tooled edging.

Physical Characteristics

File Count
578

Institutional Information

Collection
Princeton’s Holdings of the al-Madani Library
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/6eb34c34-dfd5-45c4-905c-dd83e75461fe/manifest