Kulliyyāt

Accession number:

MS M.530

Title:

Kulliyyāt

Created:

Iran, probably Shiraz, ca. 1575-1585.

Binding:

Late 19th or early 20th century lacquer-painted covers on thick boards; center medallions pendants, and corners are painted with roses on a black background and raised above a field of embossed cloud bands painted a garish red-gold; the cartouche border contains poetry; the doublures are painted similarly.

Credit:

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913.

Description:

412 leaves (1 or 2 columns, 12 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 197 x 110 mm

Provenance:

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).

Notes:

Ms. written and illuminated in Iran, probably in Shīrāz, ca. 1575 and 1585; additions to the decoration on fol. 3v and 4 were made probably when the manuscript was joined with the present binding in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The layout of the ḥāshiyya is 24 lines.
Texts: compiler's preface (fol. 1v-7); Arabic qasidas in the margins (4v-20); introduction and commentaries (fol. 7v-71); Persian qasidas and ghazals in the margins (fol. 20v-371); Gulistān (fol. 71v-202); Būstān (fol. 202v-371); Kitāb-i Ṣāḥibiyya (fol. 371v-397); Kitāb-i Mużḥāt (fol. 397v-411).
Some leaves are lacking after fol. 47 and 82.
Scribe: Hidāyat al-Kātib al-Shīrāzi.
Decoration: cream wove paper with faint gold and faint red speckles; headings in white and gold; rulings are in light blue, orange, jade, gold, tan, navy, and black; narrow gold and blue borders; illuminated borders; 4 miniatures.

Variant Title:

Collected works

Script:

nasta'liq

Language:

Persian

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

16th century

Genres:

Illuminated manuscripts