Saturday, October 30, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Collected works (Kulliyat), Walters Art Museum Ms. 617, fol. 306a

Illuminated Manuscript Collected works (Kulliyat), Walters Art Museum Ms. 617, fol. 306a

An illuminated and illustrated copy of the collected works of Sa`di (d.691/1292) (Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī) containing, among others, his Gulistān and Bustān. The present manuscript was penned by an anonymous calligrapher in Shiraz (Iran) in 934 AH / 1527 CE. The two poets Saʿdī and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=22469

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