دیوان حافظ

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

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

Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ

ديوان حافظ

Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent. (author)

Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (author)

شمس الدين محمد حافظ الشيرازي (author)

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. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W629/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Four illustrations (fols. 41a, 95b, 147a, and 179b); illuminated incipit with headpiece (fol. 1b); interlinear illumination (fols. 1b-2a)

fol. 1b Illuminated incipit page with headpiece Incipit; headpiece 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 The hunt Illustration

fol. 95b Sufis dancing Illustration

fol. 147a Polo game Illustration

fol. 180b Youth and pir in a garden Illustration

Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE

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

Ḥasan Ḥaqqī, 1285 (fol. 1a)

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

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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1552

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