Title:Walters Ms. W.638, 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 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), written in the first half of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. There are five illustrations.
For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W638/description.html, The primary language in this manuscript is Persian., Five illustrations; double-page illuminated incipits with headpieces; illuminated headpiece (added later); panels for chapter/section headings, cloud-bands, borders with foliate design; frame, fol. 6b Double-page illuminated incipit with headpiece Incipit; headpiece The inscription in the headpiece reads: Qaṣāʾid-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī., fol. 17b Double-page illuminated incipit with headpiece Incipit; headpiece The inscription in the headpiece reads: fa-Allāh khayr ḥāfiẓan., fol. 27b A festive party in a garden with dance, music, and wine Illustration, fol. 63b Majnūn seated in the wilderness with Laylá on a camel Illustration, fol. 94b A drinking and merry-making party Illustration, fol. 131b A polo-playing scene Illustration, fol. 149b Rustam rescuing Bīzhan from the well Illustration, First half of the 11th century AH / 17th CE, Seal impression: ʿAbd Allāh al-Murādī, 1132 AH / 1719 CE (fol. 91b), Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest