About this Item

Title

• Excerpts from classical Persian poetry.
  

Other Title

• Ghazalīyāt-i shaykh Saʻdī
  

Summary

• Selection of poems from classical Persian poets.
  

Contributor Names

• Saʻdī.
  
• Jāmī, 1414-1492.
  
• Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century.
  

Created / Published

• 1249 [1833 or 1834] (in a later hand)
  

Subject Headings

-  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)

-  Iran

Notes

-  Manuscript.

-  Persian.

-  Title from container.

-  Scribe not identified.

-  Written in Iran.

-  Paper; very thin, polished white laid paper with no visible chain lines or watermarks; text enclosed in double ruled border, the outer one of a thin gold line, the inner border of a thin and a thick gold line, all edged in black; text divided into two columns by two thin gold lines also edged in black; black ink; miniscule catchwords.

-  Shikastah script; text written diagonally; 8 lines in written area 9 x 4 cm.

-  Elaborate Qajar style full page miniature paintings on fol. 16a, 34a, 49b, 65b, 96b, 112b, 143b, and 152b.

-  Fol. 1b-168a.

-  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M110.

-  Elaborate can leather with laquer painting of a floral design with dorative border; inside of cover decorated with a floral design in contrasting colors; hinged at top edge.

-  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.

Medium

168 leaves (8 lines), paper : bound ; 13 x 7 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

PK6431 .E93 1833