دیوان حافظ

Walters Ms. W.630, Collection of poems (divan)

Walters Ms. W.630, 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)

ʿAlī Qulī ibn Qadr ibn Nūr[...] Barrāk [?] (scribe)

This is an illuminated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). The manuscript is written in black nastaʿlīq script by ʿAlī Qulī Barrāk (?) and dated Shaʿbān 966 AH / 1559 CE. The text opens with an illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribed: Dīvān-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī ʿalayhi al-raḥmah (fol. 1b). The text of the incipit and the facing page (fols. 1b-2a) has gilt interlinear decoration. The dark brown leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, is panel-stamped in relief with a central lobed medallion with pendants and an allover floral and vine decoration. The doublures of red-brown leather have a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces in leather filigree on a blue ground. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W630/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Incipit with illuminated titlepiece and interlinear gilt and polychrome floral decoration (fol. 1b); chapter headings in blue, red, and gold supplied at the beginning (up to fol. 7b); framing lines in blue, gold, and black

fol. 1b Incipit page with titlepiece Incipit; titlepiece This incipit page is inscribed with the title of the work and the author's name: Dīvān-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī ʿalayhi al-raḥmah. The gilt medallion with inscription and blue and gilt ground is decorated with polychrome vine and floral motifs. The text area has interlinear gilt decoration, also with polychrome floral motifs. The framing lines are in blue, gold, and black.

fol. 2a Text page with chapter heading Text page; chapter heading This text page of Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ has interlinear gilt decoration and a chapter heading in blue. The framing lines are in blue, gold, and black.

18 Shaʿbān 966 AH / 1559 CE

Erased bequest (waqf) seal and statement, probably of SultanʿUthmān Khān, signed by [Ibrāhīm] Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf, and the shelfmarks 3815 and 3795 (crossed out) (fol. 1a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

paper

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1559

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