Saʿdī. Bustan and Gulistan, undated | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Title: Saʿdī. Bustan and Gulistan, undated

ID: 01/02/02/POST-1650 MS 0045

Primary Creator: Saʿdī

Extent: 1.0 Volumes

Subjects: Persian literature - 747-1500, Persian poetry - 747-1500

Languages: Persian

This volume contains manuscript copies of Bustan and Gulistan, two works by Persian author Saʿdī. Bustan was Saʿdī's first work, completed in 1257, and contains a collection of semi-biographical anecdotes written in verse. Gulistan, completed a year later, also contains anecdotes concerning moral issues, and is written in both prose and verse. Each page is illuminated and select pages contain painted illustrations depicting different scenes.

See Administrative/Biographical History for more information.

Saʿdī (circa 1200-1291) was a Persian author. Born Abu Mohammad Mosarref-al-Din Mosleh, he was a native of Shiraz, Persia (now Iran). Saʿdī studied in Baghdad as a young man and traveled widely throughout the present-day Middle East between 1226 and 1256. He published numerous works throughout his lifetime, most notably Bustan (1257) and Gulistan (1258), and is considered by many to be "one of the greatest figures in Persian literature."

Source

Losensky, Paul. "Sa'di." Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online edition. 2012.

"Sa'di." In Encyclopedia of World Biography Online. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1998. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631005770/BIC?u=uiuc_uc&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=23b37722.

Persian literature - 747-1500
Persian poetry - 747-1500

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Finding Aid Revision History: Revised by Meg Hixon (December 2016) and Dana Miller (December 2023).

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