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Walters Ms. W.629, Collection of poems (divan)

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Shelf mark

W.629


Manuscript

Collection of poems (divan)


Text title
Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ

Vernacular: ديوان حافظ


Author

Authority name: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.

As-written name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī

Name, in vernacular: شمس الدين محمد حافظ الشيرازي

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: fl. 8th century AH / 14th CE


Abstract

This manuscript is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). The text was written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink on buff and rose-tinted laid paper in Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE. The codex contains four illustrations (fols. 41a, 95b, 147a, and 179b). The dark brown goatskin binding with central medallion and pendants panel-stamped in relief is original to the manuscript.


Date

Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE


Origin

Iran


Form

Book


Genre

Literary -- Poetry


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Colophon
fol. 200a:
  1. Transliteration: tammat [sic] al-kitāb bi ʿawn Allāh al-malik al-wahhāb wa-ḥusn tawfīqih wa /1/ al-ṣal<ā>h wa-al-salām ʿalá Muḥammad wa ālih ajmaʿīn wa-sallama taslīman /2/ dāyiman abadan kathīran fī ta<ʾ>rīkh shahr /3/ Shawwāl sanat tisʿ wa-khamsīn /4/ wa-tisʿimi<ʾ>ah al-hijrīyah /5/ al-muṣṭafawīyah /6/ tamma /7/
  2. Comment: In Arabic; gives date of copying

Support material

Paper

Buff and rose-tinted laid paper


Extent

Foliation: i+200+i

Foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals beginning with the first double-page opening


Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos


Dimensions

12.0 cm wide by 20.5 cm high


Written surface

7.0 cm wide by 12.5 cm high


Layout
  1. Columns: 2
  2. Ruled lines: 12
  3. Framing lines in gold, black, and blue

Contents:
fols. 1b - 200a:
  1. Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ
  2. Author: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.
  3. Incipit: الا يا ايها الساقى ادر كاسا وناولها...
  4. Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink
  5. Decoration note: Four illustrations (fols. 41a, 95b, 147a, and 179b); illuminated incipit with headpiece (fol. 1b); interlinear illumination (fols. 1b-2a)

Decoration:

fol. 1b:

  1. W.629, fol. 1b
  2. Title: Illuminated incipit page with headpiece
  3. Form: Incipit; headpiece
  4. Label: This page has an illuminated headpiece inscribed wa-Llah khayr hāfiz. The main text is decorated with interlinear illumination with polychrome motifs. The vertical divider is illuminated with floral motifs on a blue ground. The headpiece and written surface are surrounded by a dark blue band with white crosses and an illuminated frame.

fol. 41a:

  1. W.629, fol. 41a
  2. Title: The hunt
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 95b:

  1. W.629, fol. 95b
  2. Title: Sufis dancing
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 147a:

  1. W.629, fol. 147a
  2. Title: Polo game
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 180b:

  1. W.629, fol. 180b
  2. Title: Youth and pir in a garden
  3. Form: Illustration

Binding

The binding is original.

Dark brown goatskin (with flap); central medallion and pendants panel-stamped in relief


Provenance

Muṣṭafá Pāshā Vālī-i Iskandarīyah, 1231 (fol. 1a)

Ḥasan Ḥaqqī, 1285 (fol. 1a)

Ḥasan Ḥaqqī Vālī-i Salānīk, 1303 (fol. 1a)


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


Bibliography

Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 39.

Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 244, 270-4, 318; 2: 326-8.


Contributors

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara


Publisher

The Walters Art Museum


License

Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.