- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Manuscript; Kulliyat (Complete works) by Sa'di; Persian in black nasta'liq script; illuminated headings; 383 folios, a double folio of table of contents with gold marginal drawings (fols. 1 verso-2recto), double-page frontispiece (fols. 3verso-4recto), double-page preface (4verso-5recto); standard page: 17 lines of text and a side column with 12 lines.
Binding: The manuscript is bound in brown leather with gold block-stamped panels; binding remounted with new spine.
- Inscription(s)
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Fol. 383 recto: (bottom left), The book of Kulliyat of eloquent speaker, sultan of scholars Mushref al-Din Sa'di Shirazi is finished. May God cherish him.
- Published References
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- Julia Murray. A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980. Exh. cat. Washington, 1979. cat. 100, p. 125.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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