Kitāb-i kullīyāt-i Shaykh Saʻdī ʻalayhi al-raḥmah

Complete works of the poet Saʻdi.
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.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.