Shelfmark
ECOM 19 - ECOM 19A
Author
Title
Kulliyāt [manuscript].
Varying form of title
Other title: The collected poems of Sa'di.
Varying form of title
Other title: The Diwan of Sa'di.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Shiraz : August/September 1531 [the month of Muharram A.H. 938].
Physical description
1 v. : ill. ; 250 x 160 mm.
Note
Material: chart.
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Format: codex.
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Decoration: fine illustrations on ff. 1v, 2r, 2v-4r, 143v, 185r, 239v, 421r.
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Handwriting: Fine nasta'liq.
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Number of leaves: 445 ff.
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Incipit: بسم الله الرحمن الرحیم شکر و سپاس معبودی را جلت قدرته که آفریننده.
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Colophon: وفقنا لاتمام بهذا الکتاب الموسوم بکلیات فی شهر محرم المحوم سنه ثمان وثلثین تسعمایه.
Note
Text written in fine nasta'liq script, opening double page frontispiece of good quality illumination, opening page with illuminated shamsa containing contents. A fine example of early Safavid manuscript production.
Note
Gold and black border rules.
Citation/references note
Manuscript description based on M.S.Q. Fraser, Islamic manuscripts in the Eton College Library, 1996.
Citation/references note
B.W. Robinson, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Persian Miniature Paintings from British Collections, London, 1951 no.44.
Citation/references note
B.W. Robinson, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Paintings in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1958 p.120.
Citation/references note
R. Hillenbrand, Imperia/ lmages in Persian Painting, Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, 1977 no.178.
Citation/references note
P. Quarrie, Treasures of Eton College Library: 550 years of collecting, edited by M.F. Robinson, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1990 p. 73 no. 95.
Provenance
Number 16 written on the front flyleaf.
Binding
Fine contemporary brown morocco wallet binding (fore-edge flap and envelope flap, Type II) with central finely decorated rectangular panels and border cartouches of gilt-stamped flora/ motifs and cloud-scrolls; in the inner side of boards and flaps red morocco doublures with central medallions and cornerpieces of fine black paper filigree over blue grounds; marbled endpapers. Originally the manuscript was kept in a red box-book with decorated paper (Type I), now ECOM 19A in Sa1.5.20A.
Subject
Persian poetry 747-1500.
Added entry--place
Iran. Shiraz.
Language code
fa
Identifier
B51586