collection of poems (divan), walters art museum ms. w.633

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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

NOTE: The pages in this book are ordered from right to left. This means that to view the pages inorder, you should go the last page of the document and read what would be from “back-to-front”for a Western manuscript.

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Form: Illustration

fol. 88b:Title: Double-page illustrationForm: IllustrationLabel: This is the right side of a double-pageillustration, depicting a mosque scene with a preacherand its congregation (both men and women).

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

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

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

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding Inapplicable.

Dark brown leather (with flap); central lobed medallion withpendants and cornerpieces brushed with gold; endleaves ofmarbled paper; gilt edges

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Collation Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Dimensions 9.0 cm wide by 14.0 cm high

Written surface 4.5 cm wide by 9.0 cm high

Layout Columns: 2Ruled lines: 10Text surrounded by a frame

Contents fols. 1b - 217a:Title: Dīvān-i ḤāfiẓIncipit:

Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq scriptDecoration note: Three double-page illustrations(fols. 39b-40a, 88b-89a, and 171b-172a; double-pageilluminated frontispiece with oval medallions enclosingthe title of the work and the first four couplets (fols.1b-2a); small rectangular or triangular pieces with floraldesigns on the sides of selected verses; frame

Decoration fol. 1b:Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece withtitlepieceForm: Frontispiece; titlepieceLabel: This is the right side of a double-pageilluminated frontispiece. It has the title of the work andthe first four couplets inscribed in white nastaʿlīq scriptin the central oval medallion.

fol. 2a:Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece withtitlepieceForm: Frontispiece, titlepieceLabel: This is the left side of a double-page illuminatedfrontispiece. It has the title of the work and the first fourcouplets inscribed in white nastaʿlīq script in the centraloval medallion.

fol. 39b:Title: Double-page illustration

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.633

Descriptive Title Collection of poems (divan)

Text title Dīvān-i ḤāfiẓVernacular:

Author Authority name: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.As-written name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-ShīrāzīName, in vernacular:

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: fl. 8th centuryAH / 14th CE

Abstract This manuscript is an anonymous illuminated and illustratedtenth-century AH / sixteenth CE copy of the Collection ofpoems (dīvān) by Ḥāfiẓ (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenthCE). Written in nastaʿlīq script, this codex opens with adouble-page illuminated frontispiece and has three additionaldouble-page illustrations.

Date 10th century AH / 16th CE

Origin Iran

Form Book

Genre Literary -- Poetry

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Persian. Thesecondary language of this manuscript is Arabic.

Colophon 217a:Transliteration: tamma al-kitāb bi-ʿawn Allāh wa-ḥusntawfīqih /1/ wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʿalá khayr /2/ khalqihMuḥammad wa-ālih /3/ ajmaʿīn /4/Comment: In Arabic; no name of scribe or date of copying

Support material Paper

Laid paper

Extent Foliation: iii+217+ii

This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, inBaltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have beendigitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details about the manuscripts atthe Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. Forfurther information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contactus through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Departmentof Manuscripts.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodePublished 2011

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.633, Collection of poems (divan)Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

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