دیوان حافظ

Walters Ms. W.628, Collection of poems (divan)

Walters Ms. W.628, 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 الشيرازى (author)

Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī (scribe)

This is an illuminated and illustrated manuscript copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). It was written in black nasta‘līq script with chapter/section headings in gold ink by Zayn al-‘Ābidīn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī in 918 AH / 1512 CE in Safavid Iran. The manuscript opens with an illuminated medallion (fol. 1a), followed by a double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 1b-2a). The text begins with an incipit page with illuminated headpiece (fol. 2b). There are three additional illustrations (fols. 24a, 49b, and 87a). The red leather binding, which is not original and may be attributed to late twelfth-century AH / eighteenth CE or thirteenth-century AH / nineteenth CE Turkey, has a scalloped medallion with gold-tooled decoration and borders. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W628/description.html

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. The secondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.

Three illustrations (fols. 24a, 49b, and 87b); double-page illustrated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a); illuminated medallion (fol. 1a); incipit page with illuminated headpiece (fol. 3b); chapter/section headings in gold ink on floral polychrome ground; framing lines in blue, gold, green, and black

fol. 1a Illuminated frontispiece with medallion Frontispiece This frontispiece is decorated with a round illuminated medallion (shamsah), decorated in blue, red, and gold designs.

fol. 1b Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a court scene Illustration; frontispiece This is the right side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece showing a pavilion reception between a princely figure, a female companion, and attendants. The inscription running along the top is a Persian couplet. There has been some damage and repainting to this illustration.

fol. 2a Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a court scene Illustration; frontispiece This is the left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiece, showing a falconer and four other attendants waiting in an outside courtyard.

fol. 2b Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Incipit; headpiece

fol. 24a Outdoor reception Illustration This illustration depicts an outdoor gathering (majlis), with figures engaged in playing music and drinking. One is so inebriated he is being held upright.

fol. 49b Sufis performing sama Illustration This illustration shows Sufis participating in musical ceremonies, known as sama (hearing or listening).

fol. 87a Lovers by a stream Illustration A couple sits near a brook in the company of ladies of the court. The couplet above refers to love and longing.

Shaʿbān 918 AH / 1512 CE

Ex libris Henry Walters (upper board inside)

Persian

Arabic

paper

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1512

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