دیوان حافظ

Walters Ms. W.633, Collection of poems (divan)

Walters Ms. W.633, 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 anonymous illuminated and illustrated tenth-century AH / sixteenth CE copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Ḥāfiẓ (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). Written in nastaʿlīq script, this codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece and has three additional double-page illustrations. For full description, see http://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W633/description.html

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

Three double-page illustrations (fols. 39b-40a, 88b-89a, and 171b-172a; double-page illuminated frontispiece with oval medallions enclosing the title of the work and the first four couplets (fols. 1b-2a); small rectangular or triangular pieces with floral designs on the sides of selected verses; frame

fol. 1b Double-page illuminated frontispiece with titlepiece Frontispiece; titlepiece This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece. It has the title of the work and the first four couplets inscribed in white nastaʿlīq script in the central oval medallion.

fol. 2a Double-page illuminated frontispiece with titlepiece Frontispiece, titlepiece This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece. It has the title of the work and the first four couplets inscribed in white nastaʿlīq script in the central oval medallion.

fol. 39b Double-page illustration Illustration

fol. 88b Double-page illustration Illustration This is the right side of a double-page illustration, depicting a mosque scene with a preacher and its congregation (both men and women).

fol. 171b Double-page illustration Illustration This is the right side of a double-page illustration, depicting a tavern scene (perhaps in Shiraz) with jars of wine and musicians.

10th century AH / 16th CE

Ownership statement: Muḥammad ibn Muṣṭafá (fol. 1a)

Seal impression: Muḥammad Rizā Javāhid Zamūnī[?] (fol. 1a)

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Persian

Arabic

paper

image/jpeg

1501

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