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

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Shelf mark

W.617


Manuscript

Collected works (Kulliyat)


Text title
Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī

Vernacular: كليات سعدى


Author

Authority name: Saʿdī

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

Name, in vernacular: مشرف الدين بن مصلح سعدى شيرازى

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 691 AH / 1292 CE); author name given in an illuminated headpiece on fol. 3b reads Muṣliḥ-i Dīn Shaykh Saʿdī


Abstract

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.


Date

1st Rabīʿ I 934 AH / 1527 CE


Origin

Shiraz, Iran


Form

Book


Genre

Literary -- Prose

Literary -- Poetry


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Colophon
fol. 406a:
  1. Transliteration: qad waqaʿa al-farāgh min taḥrīrih wa- /1/ tasṭīrih b-ʿawn Allāh al-malik /2/ al-ʿazīz al-ʿalīm wa-ḥusn tawfīqih /3/ fī yawm al-thulathā ghurrat Rabīʿ al-awwal /4/ sanat arbaʿ wa-thalathīn wa-tisʿimi<ʾ>ah al-hijrīyah /5/ al-nabawīyah al-muṣṭafawīyah ḥāmidan li-Llāh wa-muṣalliyan /6 / wa-musalliman ʿalá Sayyid al-ʿālimīn wa-qablahu /7/ al-ʿāshiqīn wa-al-ʿārifīn Muḥammad al-muṣṭafá /8/ al-amīn wa-ālih wa-aḥibbāʾih wa-atbāʿih ajmaʿīn /9/ al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn fī al-buqʿah /10/ al-rafīʿah al-rūzbiḥānīyah qaddasa /11/ sirr sākinihā min aʿālī biqāʿ al-Shīrāz ḥarasahu Allāh min jamīʿ al-āfāt /12/ wa-al-ʿāhāt wa-al-balīyāt /13/
  2. Comment: Written in Arabic in red nastaʿlīq script, giving the place and date of copying

Support material

Paper

Cream-colored laid paper


Extent

Foliation: i+406


Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos


Dimensions

15.5 cm wide by 25.0 cm high


Written surface

9.5 cm wide by 17.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Columns: 2
  2. Ruled lines: 19
  3. One text column written horizontally, one written obliquely

Contents:
fols. 3b - 406a:
  1. Title: Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī
  2. Author: Saʿdī
  3. Incipit: شكر وسݒاس معبودى را جلت قدرته ...
  4. Text note: Contains Shish risālāt (fols. 5b-32a); Kitāb-i Gulistān (fols. 32b-95a); Kitāb-i Bustān (fols. 95b-176b); Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī (fols. 177a-183b); Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī (fols. 184a-208b); Kitāb-i marās̱ī (fols. 208b-212b); Kitāb-i mulammaʿāt (fols. 212b-216b); Kitāb-i tarjīʿāt (fols. 216b-222a); Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt (fols. 222b-306a); Kitāb-i badāyiʿ (fols. 306b-342b); Kitāb-i khavātīm (fols. 342b-353b); Kitāb-i ghazaliyāt-i qadīm (fols. 353b-361a); Kitāb-i ṣāḥibīyah (fols. 361b-378b); Kitāb-i muqaṭṭaʿāt (fols. 378b-381a); Kitāb-i rubāʿīyāt (fols. 381a-387b); Kitāb-i mufradāt (fols. 387b-390a); Kitāb-i khabīs̱āt (fols. 390b-399a); al-Majlis al-awwal min al-hazl (fols. 399a-401b); al-Majlis al-thānī min al-hazl (fols. 401b-403a); al-Majlis al-thālith min al-hazl (fols. 403a-405a); and Kitāb-i muz̤ḥikāt (fols. 405a-406a)
  5. Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script, mainly in black but also in gold, blue, and red ink
  6. Decoration note: 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

Decoration:

fol. 1b:

  1. W.617, fol. 1b
  2. Title: Illuminated medallion with table of contents
  3. Form: Medallion; frontispiece
  4. Label: This is one of two facing illuminated medallions with the manuscript's table of contents inscribed in compartments.

fol. 2a:

  1. W.617, fol. 2a
  2. Title: Illuminated medallion with table of contents
  3. Form: Medallion; frontispiece
  4. Label: This is one of two facing illuminated medallions with the manuscript's table of contents inscribed in compartments.

fol. 2b:

  1. W.617, fol. 2b
  2. Title: Princely entertainment in a palace
  3. Form: Illustration; frontispiece
  4. Label: The is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece. A couple is entertained by a dancer and musicians.

fol. 3a:

  1. W.617, fol. 3a
  2. Title: Courtiers in a garden
  3. Form: Illustration; frontispiece
  4. Label: This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece.

fol. 3b:

  1. W.617, fol. 3b
  2. Title: Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī
  3. Form: Frontispiece
  4. Label: 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:

  1. W.617, fol. 4a
  2. Title: Illuminated frontispiece with verses in honor of Saʿdī
  3. Form: Frontispiece
  4. Label: 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:

  1. W.617, fol. 32b
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i Gulistān
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Kitāb-i Gulistān
  5. Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i Gulistān in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 74a:

  1. W.617, fol. 74a
  2. Title: Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a student
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Label: Saʿdī in Kāshghar meets a youth who takes Arabic lessons from a teacher.

fol. 95b:

  1. W.617, fol. 95b
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i Bustān
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Kitāb-i Bustān
  5. Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i Bustān in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 136b:

  1. W.617, fol. 136b
  2. Title: Jesus and his disciples are met by two men who ask for forgiveness
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 173b:

  1. W.617, fol. 173b
  2. Title: Joseph and Zulaykha
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 177a:

  1. W.617, fol. 177a
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī
  5. Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-i ʿArabī in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 184a:

  1. W.617, fol. 184a
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit of Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī
  5. Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Qaṣāyid-i Fārsī in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 191a:

  1. W.617, fol. 191a
  2. Title: Entertainment in a garden
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 222b:

  1. W.617, fol. 222b
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt
  5. Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i ṭayyibāt in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 270a:

  1. W.617, fol. 270a
  2. Title: Entertainment in a garden
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Label: A cupbearer, referred to in the text, pours wine for the others.

fol. 306a:

  1. W.617, fol. 306a
  2. Title: The two poets Saʿdī and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Label: Saʿdī meets Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, who is dancing in mystical observance.

fol. 306b:

  1. W.617, fol. 306b
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i badāyiʿ
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Kitāb-i badāyiʿ
  5. Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i badāyiʿ in white ink on a gold ground.

fol. 328a:

  1. W.617, fol. 328a
  2. Title: Couple in a garden being served wine
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 381a:

  1. W.617, fol. 381a
  2. Title: Saʿdī in a landscape
  3. Form: Illustration
  4. Label: Saʿdī sits in a garden and is served melon.

fol. 390b:

  1. W.617, fol. 390b
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit of Kitāb-i khabisāt
  3. Form: Incipit; titlepiece
  4. Text: Kitāb-i khabisāt
  5. Label: This incipit has a titlepiece inscribed Kitāb-i khabisāt in white ink on a gold ground.

Binding

The binding is not original.

Brown leather (without flap) decorated with a simple panel frame


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Richard, Francis. Splendeurs persanes: manuscrits du XIIe au XVIIe siècle. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1997), no. 50.

Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 238-9.


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.