Details

Subject(s)

• Saʻdī—Gulistān—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• سعدي—گلستان [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on Saʻdī's Gulistān.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. ia.
• Copied in 1053 (1643-44) -- colophon (fol. 286a).
• 19 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks. Several short inscriptions on fol. ia, ib, 1a, 288b and 289a, including the title several times, a prayer, a record of a birth, and short verses of poetry. One of the inscriptions on fol. ia is the title in red ink, followed by kıymet: 300, and the date 1068 (1657-58).
• Incipit: سپاس بى پايان اول صانع بى نظير كه كلستان جهان صنعي آفتابندن بر ذره وبوستان فلك قدرتى دريا سندن بر قطر در
• Explicit: بو جملم دن صكره آنك صاحبى ايجون مغفرت طلب ايله تمت هذا الكتاب بعون الله المك الوهاب

Binding note

Half leather with envelope flap. Pink glazed paper embossed in a flower pattern on covers and the envelope flap. Brown leather on spine, fore edge flap, and around edges of covers and the envelope flap. Pastedowns and lining to the envelope flap in cream paper with green and orange print pattern. Lining to the fore edge flap in brown leather.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

Ownership statement in the name of Nuh bin Ali el-Aksarayî, a müderris at the "medrese-yi tevkiî" in Istanbul, on fol. ib.

References

Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 2 (631)

Other title(s)

• Şerh-i Gülistan
• شرح كلستان

OCLC

154333578

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