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

W.633

Collection of poems (divan)

Vernacular: ديوان حافظ

Authority name: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.

As-written name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī

Name, in vernacular: شمس الدين محمد حافظ الشيرازي

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

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.

10th century AH / 16th CE

Iran

Book

Literary -- Poetry

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

1. Transliteration: tamma al-kitāb bi-ʿawn Allāh wa-ḥusn tawfīqih /1/ wa-al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām ʿalá khayr /2/ khalqih Muḥammad wa-ālih /3/ ajmaʿīn /4/
2. Comment: In Arabic; no name of scribe or date of copying

Paper

Laid paper

Foliation: iii+217+ii

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

9.0 cm wide by 14.0 cm high

4.5 cm wide by 9.0 cm high

1. Columns: 2
2. Ruled lines: 10
3. Text surrounded by a frame

1. Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ
2. Author: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.
3. Incipit: الا يا ايها الساقى ادر كاسا وناولها...
4. Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script
5. Decoration note: 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:

1. 
2. Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece with titlepiece
3. Form: Frontispiece; titlepiece
4. Label: 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:

1. 
2. Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece with titlepiece
3. Form: Frontispiece, titlepiece
4. Label: 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:

1. 
2. Title: Double-page illustration
3. Form: Illustration

fol. 88b:

1. 
2. Title: Double-page illustration
3. Form: Illustration
4. Label: 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:

1. 
2. Title: Double-page illustration
3. Form: Illustration
4. Label: This is the right side of a double-page illustration, depicting a tavern scene (perhaps in Shiraz) with jars of wine and musicians.

Inapplicable.

Dark brown leather (with flap); central lobed medallion with pendants and cornerpieces brushed with gold; endleaves of marbled paper; gilt edges

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

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

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam

Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita

Editor: Bockrath, Diane

Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail

Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara

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