دیوان جامی

Walters Ms. W.640, Collection of poems (divan)

Walters Ms. W.640, Collection of poems (divan)

Dīvān-i Jāmī

ديوان جامى

Jāmī, 1414-1492 (author)

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad Jāmī (author)

نور الدين عبد الرحمان بن احمد جامى (author)

Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshābūrī (scribe)

This is an illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the first collection of poetry (Dīvān-i avval or Fātiḥat al-shabāb) by Nūr al-Dīn Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). According to the colophon, is was copied by the illustrious Safavid calligrapher Shāh Maḥmūd Nīshāpūrī (d. 972 AH / 1564-5 CE) (fol. 306a). The codex opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a), which is followed by a double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a). There are ten additional paintings that appear to date later than the text itself. These paintings are in the style of Isfahan in the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. The textblock, which has been trimmed, is bound in lacquer boards decorated with hunting scenes and landscape motifs. The binding was also executed in Iran and is attributable to the late tenth century AH / sixteenth CE or eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. There are several erased seals and one ownership statement on fol. 1a, and a seal impression naming Muḥammad Amīn is found on fol. 3a. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W640/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Ten illustrations; double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a); double-page illuminated incipit (fols. 2b-3a); headpiece introducing ghazals (fol. 66b), panels in the text, framing lines in blue, red, mustard, green, and gold

fol. 1b Double-page illustrated frontispiece Illustration; frontispiece This is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece.

fol. 2a Double-page illustrated frontispiece Frontispiece; illustration This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece.

fol. 2b Double-page illuminated incipit Incipit This is the right side of a double-page illuminated incipit.

fol. 3a Double-page illuminated incipit Incipit This is the left side of a double-page illuminated incipit.

fol. 66a Offering of wine in a landscape Illustration This illustration marks the end of the section of qaṣīdahs.

fol. 66b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit; headpiece This incipit page with illuminated headpiece, interlinear decoration, and gold-sprinkled margins introduces the section on ghazals.

fol. 72b The poet Jāmī reciting poetry Illustration Jāmī, who is seen in the lower right corner in a brown robe, recites his poetry before others.

fol. 90b The veiled and seated Prophet Muhammad Illustration

fol. 115b Jāmī and company in a landscape Illustration

fol. 148b Court scene Illustration

fol. 184a Scholars engaged in discussion Illustration

fol. 198a Jāmī recites his poems Illustration

fol. 223b Jāmī recites his poems for an audience in a palace Illustration

fol. 246b Garden scene with Jāmī reciting his poems Illustration

fol. 281b Jāmī recites his poems to a friend who inclines on a cushion Illustration

10th century AH / 16th CE

Several erased seals and one ownership statement (fol. 1a)

Seal impression with the name Muḥammad Amīn (fol. 3a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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