Layout: 2 columns, 15 lines Script: Written in nastaʻlīq, not particularly fine. Decoration: Borders ruled in blue, peach, and yellow. Decoration: Three illuminated headpieces in gold and colors. Binding: Rebound in 19th century blue leather, pink endpapers, marbled page edges, with gilt spine title "Saadee." The leaves have been substantially trimmed; headpieces and a few marginal annotations are folded at the head in order to fit the size of the new binding. A few marginal annotations are present in shikastah script. Leaves trimmed to fit binding. Water damage and offsetting, especially to early leaves. Some leaves remargined. At least one bifolium detached from textblock. Provenance: Purchased from Oinonen on the W.E. Archer Fund, November 1991. A collection of the complete poems of Sa'dī, with the exception of Bustan. This collection includes the Ghazaliyat, a collection of poetry in the form of ghazal, and a short section of quatrains and other meters at the end.
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