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Walters Ms. W.632, Collection of poems (divan)

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Shelf mark

W.632


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 illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Ḥāfiẓ (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE) dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The manuscript begins with a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a hunt, which is followed by an illuminated incipit page. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with gold and blue headings. There are five additional illustrations (fols. 50b, 76b, 99a, 124b, and 147b). The binding, which is not original to the codex, is covered with a gold-brocaded Safavid textile that dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE or twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.


Date

10th century AH / 16th CE


Origin

Iran


Form

Book


Genre

Literary -- Poetry


Language:

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.


Support material

Paper

Laid Persian paper


Extent

Foliation: ii+ 179+ i


Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos


Dimensions

11.0 cm wide by 20.0 cm high


Written surface

5.5 cm wide by 13.0 cm high


Layout
  1. Columns: 2
  2. Ruled lines: 14
  3. Framing lines in gold, black, and blue

Contents:
fols. 1b - 179a:
  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 with gold and blue headings
  5. Decoration note: Five illustrations (fols. 50b, 76b, 99a, 124b, and 147b); double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a); illuminated incipit with headpiece (fol. 2b)

Decoration:

fol. 1b:

  1. W.632, fol. 1b
  2. Title: Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a hunting scene
  3. Form: Illustration; frontispiece

fol. 2a:

  1. W.632, fol. 2a
  2. Title: Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a hunting scene
  3. Form: Illustration; frontispiece

fol. 2b:

  1. W.632, fol. 2b
  2. Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpiece
  3. Form: Incipit; headpiece

fol. 50b:

  1. W.632, fol. 50b
  2. Title: Reception with poet
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 76b:

  1. W.632, fol. 76b
  2. Title: Gathering with the recitation of poetry, music, and wine
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 99a:

  1. W.632, fol. 99a
  2. Title: Princely figure on horseback with a falcon
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 124b:

  1. W.632, fol. 124b
  2. Title: Battle scene
  3. Form: Illustration

fol. 147b:

  1. W.632, fol. 147b
  2. Title: Hunting scene
  3. Form: Illustration

Binding

The binding is not original.

Probably late eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE or twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE; red leather with central panels on the boards and flap filled with gold-brocaded Safavid silk


Provenance

Seal impression: Muḥammad Ḥabīb (fol. 2b); invocation: yā kabīkaj (fol. 1a)


Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest


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.