کتاب کلیات شیخ سعدی علیه الرحمه

Manuscript..

Persian..

Caption title..

Name of scribe not indicated..

Written in Iran..

Paper; light cream-color, bleached and polished laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborate floral unwans for each section in blue or blue, red and gold; smaller red and gold captions dividing some sections; text in ruled border of blue, gold and red; text is inset in a smaller ruled border, the spaces on the margins between the boxes is filled with commentary written diagonally to the text; black ink with rubrication; some pages and some whole sections have elaborate floriation in gold catchwords on rectos in lower left hand corner of the text block, set off by a diagonal line which forms a small triangular section on each text block..

Nastaʻliq; 18 lines in written area 17.5 x 9 cm..

Fol. 1b-302a; fol. 301b-302b have ruled borders but are otherwise blank..

Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M82..

Contemporary elaborately laquered binding on boards; elaborate floral designs front and back; dark green leather spine..

Complete works of the poet Saʻdi..