Collection of poems (Divan), Walters Art Museum MS. W.628

The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

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

This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized 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 at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

Label: This illustration shows Sufis participating in musical ceremonies, known as sama (hearing or listening). fol. 87a: Title: Lovers by a stream Form: Illustration Label: A couple sits near a brook in the company of ladies of the court. The couplet above refers to love and longing.

Acquisition

Ex libris Henry Walters (upper board inside)

Binding

The binding is not original.

Attributable to late twelfth-century AH / eighteenth CE or thirteenth-century AH / nineteenth CE Turkey; red leather with scalloped medallion; gold-tooled decoration and borders

Bibliography

Grube, Ernst J., and Alberta Maria Fabris. Muslim Miniature Paintings from the XIII to XIX Century from Collections in the United States and Canada: Catalogue of the Exhibition.

(Venezia: Pozza, 1962), 80-1.

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Decoration

fol. 1a: Title: Illuminated frontispiece with medallion Form: Frontispiece Label: This frontispiece is decorated with a round illuminated medallion (shamsah), decorated in blue, red, and gold designs. fol. 1b: Title: Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a court scene Form: Illustration; frontispiece Label: 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: Title: Double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a court scene Form: Illustration; frontispiece Label: 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: Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Form: Incipit; headpiece fol. 24a: Title: Outdoor reception Form: Illustration Label: 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: Title: Sufis performing sama Form: Illustration

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Language

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

Colophon

156b: Transliteration: tamma al-kitāb bi-ʿawn al-Malik al-Wahhāb ʿalá yad al-ʿabd al-faqīr /1/ Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn ʿAbd alRaḥman al-Jāmī tāba Allāh ʿalayhi wa-ghafara lahu /2/ waliwālidayhi fī Shaʿbān al-muʿaẓẓam al-muṭanazzim /3/ fī shuhūr sanat thamān ʿashar /4/ wa-tisʿimi<ʾ>ah hijriyah /5/ m (= tamma) /6/ Comment: In Arabic; gives name of scribe and date of copying

Support material

Paper Brown laid paper, probably Persian

Extent

Foliation: ii+156+ii Earlier foliation in Hindu-Arabic numerals, often trimmed

Collation

Catchwords: Written on versos, often trimmed

Dimensions

13.5 cm wide by 21.5 cm high

Written surface

7.5 cm wide by 15.5 cm high

Layout

Columns: 2 Ruled lines: 17 Framing lines in blue, gold, green, and black

Contents

fols. 1b - 156b: Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ Incipit: Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script Decoration note: 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

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.628

Descriptive Title

Collection of poems (divan)

Text title

Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ Vernacular:

Author

Authority name: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.

As-written name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī Name, in vernacular: Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: fl. 8th century AH / 14th CE

Abstract

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 alJāmī 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.

Date

Shaʿbān 918 AH / 1512 CE

Origin

Iran

Scribe

As-written name: Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī Name, in vernacular:

Form

Book

Genre

Literary -- Poetry

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This document is a digital facsimile of a manuscript belonging to the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscripts that have been digitized 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 at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's website www.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Walters manuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message to be directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

A digital facsimile of Walters Ms. W.628, Collection of poems (divan) Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ

Published by: The Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201 http://www.thewalters.org/

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