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

Title

Būstān.
[بوستان]

Authors

• Saʻdī
  سعدي
• 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
• Anderson Auction Company, auctioneer

Call number

Lewis O 70
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2460529
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104209927
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_070.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2460529

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

18--?

Place

India?

Summary

Neatly written and complete copy of Saʻdī's Būstān with 16 miniatures in color.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Catalog entry, lot 513, pasted into front inside cover.
   

Extent

Ii, 171, ii leaves : 190 x 110 (127 x 65) mm bound to 190 x 110 mm

Foliation

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

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in red leather with blind-stamped and gilded onlay central mandorla, two pendants on the vertical axis and cornerpieces; marbled paper pastedowns; endbands in blue and brown.

Layout

13 long lines; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in blue and gold (f. 1v) with the text of the first opening on cloudbands with foliate marginal fill (f. 1v-2r); 16 miniatures in bright colors (f. 16r, 23v, 28r, 39v, 55r, 60r, 70v, 80v, 87v, 93v, 101v, 112v, 117v, 127v, 133r, 138v; textblock and columns ruled in gold with page-opening ruled in blue; rubrications in red.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Sold by Anderson Auction Company (New York), 15 December 1909, lot 513 (catalog entry pasted into front inside cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic
• Manuscripts, Persian--19th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--19th century
• Illumination of books and manuscripts, Indic
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Persian literature
• Persian poetry

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Miniatures (paintings)
• Blind tooled (decoration)
• Onlays (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Būstān].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Catalog entry
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 1v — Foliate marginal fill
• fol. 2r — Foliate marginal fill
• fol. 16r — Illustration
• fol. 23v — Illustration
• fol. 28r — Illustration
• fol. 39v — Illustration
• fol. 55r — Illustration
• fol. 60r — Illustration
• fol. 70v — Illustration
• fol. 80v — Illustration
• fol. 87v — Illustration
• fol. 93v — Illustration
• fol. 101v — Illustration
• fol. 112v — Illustration
• fol. 117v — Illustration
• fol. 127v — Illustration
• fol. 133r — Illustration
• fol. 138v — Illustration