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Walters Ms. W.616, Collected works (Kulliyat)

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Shelf mark

W.616


Manuscript

Collected works (Kulliyat)


Text title
Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī

Vernacular: كليات سعدي


Author

Authority name: Saʿdī

As-written name: Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī Shīrāzī

Name, in vernacular: مشرف الدين بن مصلح سعدي شيرازي

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 691 AH / 1292 CE


Abstract

This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the collected works (Kullīyāt) of Saʿdī (d. 691 AH / 1292 CE). The text, which was completed on 10 Jumādá II 926 AH / 1520 CE, is written in nastaʿlīq script in black, with incidentals in gold and blue. The codex originally opened with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), although fol. 1b was replaced at some point in the manuscript's history. There are thirteen paintings illustrating the text, and illuminated incipit pages introduce the beginning of each individual work. The gold-brushed brown leather binding with floral and vine decoration seems to be contemporary with, although not original to, the manuscript.


Date

10 Jumādá II 926 AH / 1520 CE


Origin

Iran


Form

Book


Genre

Literary -- Prose

Literary -- Poetry


Language:

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


Colophon
fol. 443a:
  1. Transliteration: tamma al-kitāb bi-ʿawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb /1/ fī ʿashr [sic] Jumādá al-Thāni sanat 926 /2/
  2. Comment: In Arabic, giving only the date of copying

Support material

Paper

Laid paper


Extent

Foliation: ii+443+iii


Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos


Dimensions

14.5 cm wide by 25.0 cm high


Written surface

8.0 cm wide by 16.5 cm high


Layout
  1. Columns: 3
  2. Ruled lines: 17
  3. Outer column written diagonally; framing lines in black and gold

Contents:
fols. 1b - 443a:
  1. Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī
  2. Author: Saʿdī
  3. Incipit: شكر وسپاس از حد فزون معبودى جلت قدرته...
  4. Text note: Contains introduction (seven risālahs, fols. 1b-40a), Gulistān (fols. 40b-116a), Saʿdīnāmah (Bustān) (fols. 116b-207a), Qaṣā’id-i Fārsī (fols. 207b-233a), Marās̱ī (fols. 233b-240a), Qaṣāʾid-i ʿArabi (in the margin, fols. 237b-241a), Tarjīʿāt (fols. 241a-246a), Ṭayyibāt (fols. 246b-339a), Badāyiʿ (fols. 339b-380b), Khavātīm (in the margin, fols. 380b-396b), Ghazalīyāt-i qadīm (fols. 396b-402a), Kitāb-i ṣāḥibīyah (fols. 402b-421b), Muqaṭṭaʿāt (in the margin, fols. 421b-423b), Khabīs̱āt (fols. 424a-432b), al-Majlis al-awwal fī al-hazl (in the margin, fols. 432b-434b), al-Majlis al-thānī fī al-hazl (fols. 435b-436b), al-Majlis al-thalith fī al-hazl (fols. 437a-438b), Kitāb-i maz̤āḥik (fol. 439a), Rubāʿīyāt (fols. 439b-441b), and Fardīyāt (fols. 442a-443a)
  5. Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script in black, with some words in gold and blue
  6. Decoration note: Thirteen illustrations; double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a, original fol. 1b now missing); illuminated titlepieces; framing lines in black and gold

Decoration:

fol. 1b:

  1. W.616, fol. 1b
  2. Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece
  3. Form: Frontispiece
  4. Label: This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece (the original now lost).

fol. 2a:

  1. W.616, fol. 2a
  2. Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece
  3. Form: Frontispiece
  4. Label: This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece.

fol. 40b:

  1. W.616, fol. 40b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Gulistān
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i Gulistān.

fol. 46b:

  1. W.616, fol. 46b
  2. Title: Battle scene
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Gulistān

fol. 58b:

  1. W.616, fol. 58b
  2. Title: A king and a dervish
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Gulistān

fol. 83a:

  1. W.616, fol. 83a
  2. Title: A boy shoots an arrow through a ring
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Gulistān
  5. Label: This image illustrates that sometimes children do by chance the things that adults cannot do despite all their wisdom and experience. The story describes how a Persian king puts a ring on a pole, asking his subjects to shoot through its center. Each of his 400 men fail, while a boy shoots an arrow directly through it.

fol. 93b:

  1. W.616, fol. 93b
  2. Title: A drunk judge discovered sleeping with a boy
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Gulistān

fol. 116b:

  1. W.616, fol. 116b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān)
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān).

fol. 125a:

  1. W.616, fol. 125a
  2. Title: A vizier accused of treachery by another vizier
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān)

fol. 136b:

  1. W.616, fol. 136b
  2. Title: An honest peasant being spared from execution by a tyrant king
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān)

fol. 165a:

  1. W.616, fol. 165a
  2. Title: A prince of Ganjah with his drinking companions
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān)

fol. 203b:

  1. W.616, fol. 203b
  2. Title: Zulaykhā kissing Joseph's feet
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Saʿdīnāmah (Būstān)
  5. Label: This illustration depicts Zulaykhā kissing Joseph’s (Yūsuf's) feet.

fol. 207b:

  1. W.616, fol. 207b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Qaṣāʾid-i Fārsī
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Qaṣāʾid-i Fārsī.

fol. 233b:

  1. W.616, fol. 233b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Marās̱ī
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i Marās̱ī.

fol. 237b:

  1. W.616, fol. 237b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Qaṣāʾid-i ʿArabī
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i qaṣāʾid-i ʿArabī.

fol. 241a:

  1. W.616, fol. 241a
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Tarjīʿāt
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i tarjīʿāt.

fol. 246b:

  1. W.616, fol. 246b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Tayyibāt
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt.

fol. 250a:

  1. W.616, fol. 250a
  2. Title: Joseph at Zulaykhā’s party
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Tayyibāt
  5. Label: This illustration depicts Joseph (Yūsuf) at Zulaykhā’s party.

fol. 285a:

  1. W.616, fol. 285a
  2. Title: Laylā and Majnūn faint at the sight of each other
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Tayyibāt

fol. 315a:

  1. W.616, fol. 315a
  2. Title: Joseph being sold into slavery
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Tayyibāt
  5. Label: This illustration depicts Joseph (Yūsuf) being sold into slavery.

fol. 339b:

  1. W.616, fol. 339b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated titlepiece
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Bādāyiʿ
  5. Label: This incipit page has an illuminated titlepiece with the inscription Kitāb-i bādāyiʿ.

fol. 358b:

  1. W.616, fol. 358b
  2. Title: Shīrīn paying a visit to Farhād
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Bādāyiʿ

fol. 386a:

  1. W.616, fol. 386a
  2. Title: Khusraw before Shīrīn's gate
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Text: Khavātīm

Binding

The binding date is undetermined.

Dark brown leather (no flap); rich decoration in middle and side panels, brushed with gold; dentelle-style doublures on a blue background


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.