Walters Ms. W.618, Collected works (Kulliyat) Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī كليات سعدى Saʿdī Musharrif al-Dīn ibn Muṣliḥ Saʿdī Shīrāzī مشرف الدين بن مصلح سعدى شيرازى Author dates preferred by cataloger: d. 691 AH / 1292 CE scribe ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaykh Murshid al-Kātib عبد الله بن شيخ مرشد الكاتب Principal cataloger Gacek, Adam Cataloger Landau, Amy Cataloger Smith, Sita Copy editor Bockrath, Diane Contributor Barrera, Christina Contributor Emery, Doug Contributor Herbert, Lynley Contributor Noel, William Contributor Simpson, Shreve Contributor Tabritha, Ariel Contributor Toth, Michael B. Contributor Valle, Chiara Conservator Jewell, Stephanie Conservator Quandt, Abigail The Walters Art Museum

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 This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the collected works (Kulliyāt) of Saʿdī (d. 691 AH / 1292 CE). It was written by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shaykh Murshid al-Kātib in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The manuscript opens with an illuminated medallion (fol. 2a), followed by a double-page illustrated frontispeice (fols. 2b-3a) and a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a). The text is illustrated with seven additional paintings (fols. 18a, 31b, 49b, 70b, 88a, 101a, and 106b). The brown leather binding is incorrectly bound with the flap appearing on the right side instead of the left. Baltimore The Walters Art Museum W.618 The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic. 2a - 277b Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī كليات سعدى منت خدايرا عز وجل كه... Consists of the following texts: Gulistān (fols. 4b-124a: main column); Būstān (fols. 4b-131a: outer column/margin, written obliquely; Risālah-i Naṣīḥat al-mulūk (fols. 124b-136a); Ghazaliyāt-i (fols. 131a-136a: outer column/margin; Tarjīʿāt (fols. 137b-140b): main text and in the margin; Ṭayyibāt (fols. 141b-209b); Badāyiʿ (fols. 210b-241a); Khavātīm (fols. 241b–?: folios out of order); Muqaṭṭaʿāt (fols. 255a-268a: folios out of order); Rubāʿīyāt (fols. 268a-272a); and Khabīs̱āt (fols. 272b-277b); folios 136b-137a, 141a, and 210a blank scribe tammat al-risālah al-mawsūmah /1/ bi-Naṣīḥat al-mulūk bi-ʿawn Allāh wa-tawfīqih wa-ṣallá Allāh ʿalá Muḥammad wa-ālih /2/ ʿalá yad al-ʿabd al-faqīral-mudhnib ʿAbd Allāh bn Shaykh Murshid al-Kātib /3/ In Arabic, giving only the name of the scribe

Laid paper; gold-sprinkled margins up to fol. 136a

 Foliation: i+279+i26.5 16.5 17.0 9.5

Written obliquely in a triangle at the end of the outer column/margin only

Area within the frame from fol. 4b onwards consists of the main column and an outer column/margin inscribed obliquely; framing lines in blue, green, gold, and black Written mainly in black nastaʿlīq script, with incidentals and titles/chapter headings in gold riqāʿ script Seven illustrations (fols. 18a, 31b, 49b, 70b, 88a, 101a, and 106b); illuminated frontispiece with medallion (fol. 2a); double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a); double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 3b-4a); illuminated incipit pages (fols. 4b, 124b, and 131a); illumination after fol. 136 not supplied; framing lines in blue, green, gold, and black Frontispiece with illuminated medallion Frontispiece; medallion Double-page illustrated frontispiece Frontispiece; illustration This is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a banquet. The inscriptions contain honorific titles as well as poetic verses. Double-page illustrated frontispiece Frontispiece; illustration This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting figures feasting outside and walking toward the banquet shown on the opposite side. Double-page illuminated frontispiece Gulistān Frontispiece; incipit This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece introducing the text of the Gulistān. Double-page illuminated frontispiece Gulistān Frontispiece; incipit This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece introducing the text of the Gulistān. A maid dipped in the sea as a cure for her fear of water Illustration A wrestling match Illustration A supposedly pious man Illustration This illustration depicts a supposedly pious man being fanned by an enslaved person and watched by a king who is surprised at his hypocrisy. A boy shoots an arrow through a ring placed on top of a dome and claims it Illustration A king finds a judge inebriated Illustration Saʿdī surrenders his arms to two Indian robbers Illustration Saʿdī and a dervish go to settle their quarrel before a judge Illustration

Largely attributable to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE, with later additions; brown leather (incorrectly bound with the flap on the wrong side and folded back on itself); central lobed oval and pendants with gold-brushed scroll and floral design; blue outer margin

 10th century AH / 16th CE Iran Invocation yā kabīkaj (fol. 1a) List of books, by an anonymous owner, which were in his house in Tehran (fol. 1b) Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest Art Medicine Museum Poetry Script Muhammad, the Prophet Kashmiri Horses Walters Art Museum Document Astrology Devotion History Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Philosophy Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology Mineralogy Logic Geography Geomancy Cosmology Cartography Fortune-telling Koran Qur`an Firman Palimpsest Prayer Bible Gospels Psalter Missal Lectionary Book of Hours Antiphonary Homilary Processional Horologion Breviary Hymnal Chronicle Maghreb Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Afghanistan Central Asia Egypt England India Iran Iraq Pakistan Germany France Austria Netherlands Ethiopia Armenia Flanders Greece Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Armenian Byzantine Abbasid Qajar Rajput Christian Arabic Austrian Dutch Egyptian Fatimid German Indian Islamic Persian Safavid Timurid Turkish Umayyad English French Flemish Ethiopian Carolingian Calligraphy Colophon Headpiece Illumination Illustration Medallion Miniature Ornament Painting Early Abbasid script Ragini Romanesque Gothic Watermark Grotesques Historiated initial Inhabited initial White-vine lettering Textura Batarda Humanistic Uncial Accordion book Album Book Codex Manuscript Heraldry Saint's Life Drawing Grisaille New Abbasid style Musical notation Russia Romania Charter Russian Genealogy Mass book Prayer book Gospel Lectionary Psalter-Hours Treatise Grammar Gloss Pontifical Private devotional text Gradual Protective scroll Scroll 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 8th century 9th century Block book Caroline minuscule Central Arab lands (Near East) Chart English secretary hand Kufic Gothic book hand Original binding Treasure binding Gospel Book Spanish Spain Italian Italy Coptic Scrapbook American United States Maryland Historical Society Friendship book Friendship Biography Judaism Talmud Collection of Sermons Notable Notable binding Textbook Scholarly compendium Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Literature Japanese Japan Nordic Scandinavia Catalog Dictionary Spanish Colonial Mexico Mayan Haggadah Switzerland Confessional Mirror Liturgical Devotional Scriptural Theological Legal Historical Scientific Scientific -- Medical Literary -- Prose Literary -- Poetry Philosophical Astrological Sufi English Codex Manuscript Persian Walters Art Museum Illumination Iran Safavid Islamic Notable binding Book Illustration Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Colophon