Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Gulistān.
[گلستان]

Authors

• Saʻdī
  سعدى
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Sālār al-Dawlah, Abū al-Fatḥ Mīrzā, 1880 or 1881-1959, donor
  سالار الدوله، ابو الفتح ميرزا،
• Perkins, Oliver Henry, -1912, former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor
• Anderson Galleries, Inc, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 72
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2450051
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091899696
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2450051

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Small, neatly written, gilded copy with embroidered cover and carrying case.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• A certification of the gift by the United States Minister in Tehran laid in.
   

Extent

134 leaves : 107 x 65 (80 x 40) mm bound to 110 x 65 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Embroidered covers of alternating stripes of dark and light with floral motifs over card with green leather edges and spine; gold stamped frame; green leather pastedowns. Matching green leather carrying box with red textile interior. Case is stamped "Gulistan Persian MS."

Layout

Chiefly 14 long lines, sometimes half the page in diagonal or perpendicular and half the page straight across; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold, red, blue, green on first opening (f. 1v). The entire text written on cloudbands; textblock double border-ruled in gold; page-opening ruled in black; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻliq shikastah in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.
   
• Gift of Abū al-Fatḥ Mīrzā, Sālār al-Dawlah, third son of Muẓaffar al-Dīn Shāh to Oliver Henry Perkins, April 11, 1901 (inscription last flyleaf recto and notes laid in).
   
• Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Sold in Perkins' sale at Anderson Galleries on March 23 and 24, 1926 (catalog entry laid in).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Gulistān].
• Loose leaf 1 recto — Name card: "Salar-ed-Dovleh"; "Abual Fath Mirza"
• Loose leaf 2 recto — Presentation note
• Loose leaf 3 recto — Catalog entry
• Loose leaf 4 recto — Letter of presentation from U.S. Minister in Tehran

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "OHP" = Oliver Henry Perkins
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Foliate marginal fill
• fol. 1v — Text on cloudbands (every page)
• fol. 2r — Foliate marginal fill