Label:Walters Ms. W.632, Collection of poems (divan)
Title:Walters Ms. W.632, Collection of poems (divan), Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ, ديوان حافظ
Contributor:Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent. (author), Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (author), شمس الدين محمد حافظ الشيرازي (author)
Description: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.
For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W632/description.html, The primary language in this manuscript is Persian., Five illustrations (fols. 50b, 76b, 99a, 124b, and 147b); double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a); illuminated incipit with headpiece (fol. 2b), fol. 1b Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a hunting scene Illustration; frontispiece, fol. 2a Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a hunting scene Illustration; frontispiece, fol. 2b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit; headpiece, fol. 50b Reception with poet Illustration, fol. 76b Gathering with the recitation of poetry, music, and wine Illustration, fol. 99a Princely figure on horseback with a falcon Illustration, fol. 124b Battle scene Illustration, fol. 147b Hunting scene Illustration, 10th century AH / 16th CE, Seal impression: Muḥammad Ḥabīb (fol. 2b); invocation: yā kabīkaj (fol. 1a), Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Language:Persian
Format:paper, image/jpeg
Date:1501
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