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
- image