Gulistān.

Title:

Gulistān.
گلستان

Creator:

Saʻdī
Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Date:

between 1700 and 1799?

Description:

Small, neatly written, gilded copy with embroidered cover and carrying case.

Language:

Persian

Type (Narrower):

Manuscripts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Illuminations (painting)
Persian literature--747-1500
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian--Specimens
Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century

Geographic region:

Iran?

Provenance:

Gift of Anne Baker Lewis in 1933.Gift of Abū al-Fatḥ Mīrzā, Sālār al-Dawlah, third son of Muẓaffar al-Dīn Shāh to Oliver Henry Perkins, April 11, 1901 (inscription last flyleaf recto and notes laid in).Formerly owned by Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate inside front cover).Sold in Perkins' sale at Anderson Galleries on March 23 and 24, 1926 (catalog entry laid in).Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.

Extent:

Chiefly 14 long lines, sometimes half the page in diagonal or perpendicular and half the page straight across; border-ruled.

Publisher:

Free Library of Philadelphia

Rights:

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Identifier:

Lewis O 72

Is part of:

OPenn: Manuscripts of the Muslim World

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