Author
Sa'dī, Saadi, Muḥammad Ja'far ibn Muḥammad Ādam, active 1771, Muḥammad Ja'far ibn Muḥammad Ādam, Nuttall, Frank E., 1875-1943
Author Original
سعدى محمد جعفر بن محمد آدم
Publication Date
1771
Publication Place
[China] -
Subject
Persian poetry -- 747-1500, Sufi poetry, Persian -- Early works to 1800, Manuscripts, Persian -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor
Type
Book
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Physical Dimensions
141 leaves : paper ; 206 x 132 (150 x 80) mm. bound to 212 x 140 mm
Library
University of Michigan Library
Library Asset ID
1194828442
Record ID
990068359890106381
Library Location
UM Ann Arbor Libraries, University Library
Date
Possibly between 1771-1772
Notes
Ms. codex., Title from close on p.298., Incipit: "May God bless you, whose obedience brings you nearness...", Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "This book of Mustatab Kalestan from Moin Wahab the Most High ... on Monday night in the year 1184 [1185], the scribe of the letters Muhammad Jafar bin Muhammad Adam Ghofrullah Zanobhi Bayt ... Tem", Collation: iv, 17 IV(136), II+1 (141), IV; almost exclusively quaternions (although original sewing now impossible to discern, mid-quire marks designate centers of gatherings); middle of the quire marks in the form of black oblique strokes in the upper outer corner of the right-hand leaf; final leaves ruled but left blank; present catchwords; pagination in now light gray ink, Western numerals (every other leaf, not always visible) ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during digitization (includes inserts and flyleaves)., Layout: Written in 12 lines per page; frame-ruled., Script: Nastaʻlīq; elegant, somewhat compact hand in a medium line; serifless with effect of words descending to baseline, many closed counters, pointing (two and three dots) mainly in strokes or conjoined dots., Decoration: Illuminated headpiece (ʻunwān / sarlawḥ) at opening on p.22 consisting of rectangular piece with gold cartouche (carrying the basmalah set off by cloud bands) flanked by floral vegetal motifs in gold, red and dark gray blue, surmounted by scalloped w-shaped piece with swirling floral vegetal designs in red, gray blue [or dark green?], and gold on fields of gold and gray blue, all surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) gray blue and set in a well of gold and gray bands with red vegetal accents; written area of incipit and facing page surrounded by frame consisting of a gold band defined by black fillets with outermost black and red rules; elsewhere written area surrounded by triple rule-border in two red rules and one blue; keywords, abbreviation symbols (mainly two-teeth stroke overlining some keywords), and vocalization rubricated; textual dividers in the form of horizontal stroke with closed loop, three dots, etc., Support: non-European laid paper with roughly 9 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly indistinct, curving) and chain lines only faintly visible at roughly 25 mm. apart (see p.302, etc.), thin and crisp though sturdy, well-sized and burnished, stark white in color; original leaves have been mounted in frames of woven paper (applied to the recto) which have then been sewn in the current rebinding; outer edges of original leaves and mounts have been trimmed together; minor pest damage in original leaves., Binding: Boards covered in reddish cloth with red-brown leather over spine (quarter binding); Western style binding; pastedowns and flyleaves in faintly marbled paper with a pinkish hue; head edge of text block gilt; spine blind-tooled with leaves and decorative lines as well as gold-stamped with "SAʻDĪ |GULISTĀN | MS. | A.H. 1185"; sewn in white thread over five recessed cords; overall in good condition., Former shelfmark: Mich. Isl. Ms. temp. no 44, Accompanying materials: a. Slip or tag with "#2" in red pencil (paginated pp.1-2) -- b. Slip of ruled paper with inscription in ink "Chambers. See Ethé, Bodleian cat., col. 260." (paginated pp.3-4) -- c. Slip with description in hand of G. Meredith-Owens "MO 15 Gulistān of Saʻdī | copied in 1185 (6 ?) in Chināpatan (?) by Muḥammad b. Jaʻfar b. Muḥammad" (paginated pp.5-6) -- d. Slip with description (in hand of E. Husselman ?) "Muṣliḥ ibn ʻAbd Allāh, Musharrif al-Dīn, called Saʻdī, Shīrāzī. Gulistān. Copied A.H. 1185. Have several other MSS in U. of M. Isl. MSS." (paginated pp. 7-8) -- e. Slip with note "Persian MSS (Heyworth-Dunne?) with Husselman and Meredith-Owen notes" (paginated pp.9-10) -- f. Slip with note "Counted for 1968/69 Annual Report" (paginated pp.11-12) -- g. Card with description in pencil "Gulestān (MS) | Saʻdi | Date: 1185 AH (1766±) | Pages: 284" (paginated pp.13-14)., Origin: As appears in colophon on p.298, copied by Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ādam in Chīnāpatan (Chīnapatan, i.e. Madras or Chennai) with transcription completed in 1184 [1770 or 71] or 1185 [1771 or 2]; likely 1185 as numerals appear to have been overwritten in red by the rubricator., Note "Persian MSS." and former inventory mark "10/6" on flyleaf (p.15); back flyleaf stamped in black ink "J. ADAMS MANCHESTER"; Western numerals in the margins mark lines of verse at intervals; occasional marginal correction., Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center, Isl. Ms. 895
Sample Text
Elegant copy of the Gulistān, celebrated collection of moralizing anecdotes in rhymed prose interspersed with verse (maqāmah form), composed in 1258 by the renowned Persian poet and prose writer, Saʻdī (d.1292).
Katkıda Bulunanlar
Muḥammad Jaʻfar ibn Muḥammad Ādam, active 1771, scribe., Nuttall, Frank E., 1875-1943, former owner.
Son Dizinleme Tarihi
20251210
Biçim
Book, Manuscript, Available Online
Koleksiyonda
F. E. Nuttall Collection.
Referanslar
Cat. Pers. MSS Brit. Mus., p.595 ff., Browne, v. ii, p.525-532, Rypka, p.251-253
Elde Ediliş
Acquired from Frank E. Nuttall (1875-1943).
Konular (Diğer)
Headpieces (layout features)
