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Title

Kullīyāt.
کليات

Authors

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

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 67
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2508413
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111686639
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_067.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2508413

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

between 1550 and 1650?

Place

Iran?

Summary

Copy of the complete works of Saʻdī with seven illustrations and a number of illuminated page openings; many pages have been neatly repaired.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption titles (f. 211v, for example).
   
• Stamp dated 1231 A.H. (1815 or 1816) (f. 169v).
   
• Catalog entry, number 211, from 1921 Sotheby's sale pasted in (last flyleaf verso).
   

Extent

410, i leaves : 235 x 135 (166 x 90) mm bound to 240 x 142 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in black leather over pasteboard (Type III) with gilt stamped central mandorla inlay with two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; gold tooled frame. Inside covers have red leather doublure with central mandorla and cornerpieces of gold filigree over blue inlay with two pendants on the vertical axis and four notches along the long sides of gold filigree over green inlay; gold tooled frame.

Layout

Chiefly 19 lines in two columns with a third column of 12 short, angled lines along the outside, fore-edge margin; prose in 19 long lines with angled marginal line.

Decoration

First page opening decorated with gold and blue headpiece, text on cloudbands and floral marginal fill with intercolumnar rulings in blue and purple (f. 1v-2r); seven polychrome illustrations (f. 22r, 102r, 138r, 171v, 200r, 261v, 344v); illuminated full page-opening with a headpiece in gold and yellow and floral marginal fill (f. 37v-38r); illuminated full page opening in gold, black and blue with vine-pattern marginal fill (f. 129v-130r); illuminated full page opening with polychrome and gold headpiece with animal and vegetal marginal fill (f. 219v-220r, 244v-245r, 253v-254r, 334v-335r, 364v-265r); illuminated title band with white or tarnished silver ink on gold field with small polychrome flowers (f. 247v, 376v, 383r, 398v, 400r); textblock border-ruled in gold with columns also ruled in gold.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold at Sotheby's in 1921, lot 211.
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Persian literature--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens

Genres

• Manuscripts, Persian
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, 16th century
• Manuscripts, 17th century
• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Filigree
• Full covers
• Islamic bindings (Binding)
• Envelope flaps (features)
• Inlaying
• Stamps (Provenance)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Kullīyāt
• fol. 1v — [Preface]
• fol. 6r — [Risālāt]
• fol. 38v — Gulistān
• fol. 129v — Būstān
• fol. 211v — Qaṣāʼid-i ʻArabī
• fol. 219v — Qaṣāʼid-i Fārsī
• fol. 244v — Marāthī
• fol. 247v — Mulammaʻāt
• fol. 253v — Ṭayyibāt
• fol. 334v — Badāʻi
• fol. 364v — Khavātīm
• fol. 376v — Ghazalīyāt-i qadīmah
• fol. 383r — Ṣāḥibīyah
• fol. 398v — Muqaṭṭaʻāt
• fol. 400r — Muṭāyabāt
• fol. 408r — Hazalīyāt

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Filigree
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Dual-page illuminated margins
• fol. 2r — Dual-page illuminated margins
• fol. 22r — Illustration
• fol. 38v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 38v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 39r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 41r — Illuminated corners
• fol. 102r — Illustration
• fol. 129v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 129v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 129v — Cloudbands
• fol. 130r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 130r — Cloudbands
• fol. 138r — Illustration
• fol. 169v — Stamp
• fol. 171v — Illustration
• fol. 200r — Illustration
• fol. 211v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 211v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 211v — Cloudbands
• fol. 212r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 212r — Cloudbands
• fol. 219v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 219v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 219v — Cloudbands
• fol. 220r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 220r — Cloudbands
• fol. 244v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 244v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 244v — Cloudbands
• fol. 245r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 245r — Cloudbands
• fol. 247v — Illuminated header
• fol. 253v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 253v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 253v — Cloudbands
• fol. 254r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 254r — Cloudbands
• fol. 261v — Illustration
• fol. 334v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 334v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 334v — Cloudbands
• fol. 335r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 335r — Cloudbands
• fol. 344v — Illustration
• fol. 364v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 364v — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 364v — Cloudbands
• fol. 365r — Illuminated marginal fill
• fol. 365r — Cloudbands
• fol. 376v — Illuminated header
• fol. 383r — Illuminated header
• fol. 398v — Illuminated header
• fol. 400r — Illuminated header