AKULLIYAT(THE COMPLETE WORKS) OF SA'DI PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Iran, dated 1241 AH (1825), signed by Ali Muhammad Shirazi and made for Hassan Khan Persian and Arabic manuscript on paper, 211ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 23ll. ofkitabat nasta'liq script, the prose within gold clouds, the poetry in four columns, chapter headings in red and gold, the opening bifolio heavily illuminated with gold and polychromes, in gold and blue ruling, catchwords, one page illuminated with a courtly scene of an enthroned prince in an interior, debating with courtiers, one fly-leaf bearing the stamp 'Persian Exhibition New York 1940', numbered KF14, in lacquer binding, the exteriors of mirroring nightingale in floral bushes, the interiors with a sage instructing a youth seated in a green landscape, bound with a calf spine, the text panel 9.9cm x 6cm, the folio 13cm x 8cm.