دیوان حافظ

Walters Ms. W.638, Collection of poems (divan)

Walters Ms. W.638, 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 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

Persian

paper

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