Collection of poems (Divan), Walters Art Museum MS. W.633

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.

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

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Form: Illustration fol. 88b: Title: Double-page illustration Form: Illustration 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: Title: Double-page illustration Form: Illustration Label: This is the right side of a double-page illustration, 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 with pendants and cornerpieces brushed with gold; endleaves of marbled 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: 2 Ruled lines: 10 Text surrounded by a frame

Contents

fols. 1b - 217a: Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ Incipit: Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script 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

Decoration

fol. 1b: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece with titlepiece Form: Frontispiece; titlepiece 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: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece with titlepiece Form: Frontispiece, titlepiece 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: 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 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 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.

Date

10th century AH / 16th CE

Origin

Iran

Form

Book

Genre

Literary -- Poetry

Language

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

Colophon

217a: 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/ Comment: In Arabic; no name of scribe or date of copying

Support material

Paper Laid paper

Extent

Foliation: iii+217+ii

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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.633, 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