Gulistān
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Gulistān
گلستان - Alternative title:
- GULISTĀN
کلستان
كلستان - Creator:
- Saʻdī
سعدى - Contributor:
- Nuttall, Frank E., former owner
Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ādam, scribe
محمد جعفر بن محمد آدم, ناسخ - Date:
- 1771 or 1772?].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 895Origin: As appears in colophon on p.298, copied by Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ādam in Chīnāpatan (چيناپتن, i.e. Madras or Chennai) with transcription completed in 1184 [1770 or 71] or 1185 [1771 or 2] ; likely 1185 as numerals appear to have been overwritten in red by the rubricator.Accompanying materials: a. Slip or tag with "#2" in red pencil (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip of ruled paper with inscription in ink "Chambers. See Ethé, Bodleian cat., col. 260." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 15 Gulistān of Saʻdī | copied in 1185 (6 ?) in Chināpatan (?) by Muḥammad b. Jaʻfar b. Muḥammad" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Muṣliḥ ibn ʻAbd Allāh, Musharrif al-Dīn, called Saʻdī, Shīrāzī. Gulistān. Copied A.H. 1185. Have several other MSS in U. of M. Isl. MSS." (paginated pp.7-8) -- e. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Husselman and Meredith-Owen notes" (paginated pp.9-10) -- f. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.11-12) -- g. Card with description in pencil "Gulestān (MS) | Saʻdi | Date: 1185 AH (1766±) | Pages: 284" (paginated pp.13-14).Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no 44Binding: Boards covered in reddish cloth with red-brown leather over spine (quarter binding) ; Western style binding ; pastedowns and flyleaves in faintly marbled paper with a pinkish hue ; head edge of text block gilt ; spine blind-tooled with leaf and decorative lines as well as gold-stamped with "SAʻDĪ |GULISTĀN | MS. | A.H. 1185" ; sewn in white thread over five recessed cords ; overall in good condition.Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct, curving) and chain lines only faintly visible at roughly 25 mm. apart (see p.302, etc.), thin and crisp though sturdy, well-sized and burnished, stark white in color ; original leaves have been mounted in frames of wove paper (applied to the recto) which have then been sewn in the current rebinding ; outer edges of original leaves and mounts have been trimmed together ; minor pest damage in original leaves.Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.22 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche (carrying the basmalah set off by cloud bands) flanked by floral vegetal motifs in gold, red and dark grey blue, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece with swirling floral vegetal designs in red, grey blue [or dark green?], and gold on fields of gold and grey blue, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) grey blue and set in a well of gold and grey bands with red vegetal accents ; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame consisting of a gold band defined by black fillets with outermost black and red rules ; elsewhere written area surrounded by triple rule-border in two red rules and one blue ; keywords, abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining some keywords), and vocalization rubricated ; textual dividers in the form of horizontal stroke with closed loop, three dots, etc.Script: Nastaʻlīq ; elegant, somewhat compact hand in a medium line ; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, many closed counters, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes or conjoined dots.Layout: Written in 12 lines per page ; frame-ruled.Collation: iv, 17 IV(136), II+1 (141), iv ; almost exclusively quaternions (though original sewing now impossible to discern, mid-quire marks designate centers of gatherings) ; middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf ; final leaves ruled but left blank ; catchwords present ; pagination in now light grey ink, Western numerals (every other leaf, not always visible) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves).Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "این کتاب مستطاب کلستان از معین واهب متعال ... بشب دوشنبه در سنه ۱۱۸۴ [۱۱۸۵] چیناپتن باتمام رسید کاتب الحروف محمد جعفر بن محمد ادم غفر الله ذنوبهى بیت ... تم"Incipit: "منت مر خدا یرا عز و جل که طاعتش موجب قربت است ..."Title from close on p.298.Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Gulistān, celebrated collection of moralizing anecdotes in rhymed prose interspersed with verse (maqāmah form), composed in 1258 by the renowned Persian poet and prose writer, Saʻdī (d.1292).
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Persian
Sufi poetry, Persian Early works to 1800.
Persian poetry 747-1500 - Time period:
- 747-1500
- Extent:
- 141 leaves : paper ; 206 x 132 (150 x 80) mm. bound to 212 x 140 mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
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