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MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291 AD): KULLIYAT
MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291 AD): KULLIYAT
MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291 AD): KULLIYAT
MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291 AD): KULLIYAT
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MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291 AD): KULLIYAT

SIGNED PIR MUHAMMAD BIN QASIM AL-KATIB, SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, DATED MIDDLE OF SAFAR AH 1005/OCTOBER 1596 AD

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MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291 AD): KULLIYAT
SIGNED PIR MUHAMMAD BIN QASIM AL-KATIB, SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, DATED MIDDLE OF SAFAR AH 1005/OCTOBER 1596 AD
The collected works of Sa'di, poetry, Persian manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 305ff. plus nine fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of fine black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns with polychrome and gold divisions, further text written diagonally in panels around the main text panel, within gold and polychrome rules, numerous illuminated panels in gold and polychrome, headings in white thuluth script within illuminated cartouches, with 11 gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces, eight original miniatures, with Qajar margins and catchwords, incomplete, in restored gilt painted morocco
Text panel 5 ¾ x 2 7/8in. (14.2 x 7.3cm.); folio 9 ¾ x 5 ¾in. (24.9 x 14.8cm.)
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With its bold illuminated headpieces and its small charming miniatures, this manuscript is typical of the type of work produced in Shiraz in the second half of the 16th century. It is signed at the end of one of the chapters by Pir Muhammad bin Qasim. A scribe called Pir Muhammad signed a copy of Jami's Haft Awrang executed in Shiraz and dated AH 1006/1596-97 now in Russia (Marianna Shreve Simpson, Sultan Ibrahim's Mirza Haft Awrang, Washington, 1997,p.376). It is very tempting to suggest that both scribes are the same person.

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