Kulliyat (Complete works) by Sa'di (d.1291)

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Muhammad al-Qivam al-Shirazi

• Description

  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.

• Inscriptions

  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.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Islamic Manuscript Illumination (January 23, 1984 to December 10, 1984)

  A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)

  Near Eastern Art (June 15, 1973 to May 7, 1975)

• Origin

  Shiraz, probably Fars, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Muhammad al-Qivam al-Shirazi

• Place

  Shiraz, Fars

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts