Collection ID: 0032 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Gulistān
[گلستان]

Authors

• Saʻdī
  سعدى

Other related names

• Beijan, A., active 1921, former owner
• Jackson, A. V. Williams 1862-1937, former owner

Call number

X892.8 Sa17
(New York, NY. 10027, Columbia University., Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 14258997
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1112158994
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/X892_8_Sa17.html
• https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14258997

Publisher

Columbia University.

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17-- or 18--

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of Saʻdī's Gulistān, missing the last leaf.

Notes

• Manuscript codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

225 numbered pages : 202 x 131 (155 x 88) mm, bound to 206 x 137 x 22 mm

Support

Non-European laid paper

Binding

Bound in plain black leather with blind ruled frame.

Layout

15 lines in long lines and two columns.

Decoration

Polychrome and gold headpiece (f. 1v), textblock border-ruled in gold and blue; rubricatons in red; columns and some lines ruled in gold.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Given by Mrs. A. V. W. Jackson in December 1937 (library plate, inside front cover).
   
• Gift from A. Beijan to A. V. W. Jackson in 1921 (inscription, flyleaf 1 recto at front of book).
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Manuscripts, Persian--New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Annotations (Provenance)

Licenses

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