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Manuscript/Mixed Material Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah كتاب كليات شيخ سعدي عليه الرحمه

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Title

  • Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah

Other Title

  • كتاب كليات شيخ سعدي عليه الرحمه

Summary

  • Complete works of the poet Saʻdi.

Names

  • Saʻdī, author

Created / Published

  • 1207? [1792 or 1793]

Headings

  • -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Iran

Notes

  • -  Manuscript.
  • -  Persian.
  • -  Caption title.
  • -  Name of scribe not indicated.
  • -  Written in Iran.
  • -  Paper; light cream-color, bleached and polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwans for each section in blue or blue, red and gold; smaller red and gold captions dividing some sections; text in ruled border of blue, gold and red; text is inset in a smaller ruled border, the spaces on the margins between the boxes is filled with commentary written diagonally to the text; black ink with rubrication; some pages and some whole sections have elaborate floriation in gold catchwords on rectos in lower left hand corner of the text block, set off by a diagonal line which forms a small triangular section on each text block.
  • -  Nastaʻliq; 18 lines in written area 17.5 x 9 cm.
  • -  Fol. 1b-302a; fol. 301b-302b have ruled borders but are otherwise blank.
  • -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M82.
  • -  Contemporary elaborately laquered binding on boards; elaborate floral designs front and back; dark green leather spine.
  • -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

  • 302 leaves (18 lines), paper : bound ; 24.7 x 15.5 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PK6540 .A1 1792

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016397202

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

IIIF Presentation Manifest

Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Persian Language Manuscript Project are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, African and Middle East Division, Near East Section Persian Manuscript Collection

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Chicago citation style:

SaʻDī, Author. Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah. [? 1792 or 1793, 1792] Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016397202/.

APA citation style:

SaʻDī, A. (1792) Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah. [? 1792 or 1793] [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016397202/.

MLA citation style:

SaʻDī, Author. Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah. [? 1792 or 1793, 1792] Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016397202/>.