Collection of poems (divan), Walters Art Museum MS. W.634

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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Label: This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece in the Safavid style, which has been torn. It precedes the preface (dībāchah) of the Dīvān. fol. 7b: Title: Incipit page with illuminated headpiece Form: Incipit; headpiece Label: This incipit has an illuminated headpiece inscribed in white ink: fa-Llāh khayr ḥāfiẓan or "God is the best protector" (Sūrat Yūsuf, 12:64). The headpiece exemplifies the Safavid style of illumination. On this page and the facing page (fol. 8a) there is gold interlinear illumination with polychrome floral motifs.

The headpiece introduces the initial verses of the Dīvān. fol. 199a: Title: Illuminated tailpiece and colophon Form: Tailpiece; colophon Label: This illuminated tailpiece contains the final verses of the Dīvān and a colophon with prayers for the prophet Muhammad and his family.

Binding

The binding is not original.

Modern black leather (no flap)

Bibliography

Gacek, Adam. Persian Manuscripts in the Libraries of McGill University: Brief Union Catalogue. (Montreal: McGill University Libraries, 2005), no. 39.

Richard, Francis. Catalogue des manuscrits persans. (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1989), nos. 244, 270-4, 318; Vol. 2, 326-8.

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ajmaʿīn /2/ al-ṭayyibīn al-ṭāhirīn wa-al-ḥamd li-Llāh /3/ Rabb al-ʿālamīn /4/ m (= tamma) /5/ Comment: No date or name of scribe Support material

Paper Laid paper

Extent

Foliation: ii+200+i

Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Dimensions

14.5 cm wide by 23.5 cm high

Written surface

7.5 cm wide by 14.5 cm high

Layout

Columns: 2 Ruled lines: 12-13 Framing lines in blue, red, gold, orange, and green

Contents

fols. 1b - 199a: Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ Incipit:

Text note: Opening verses preceded by a preface (dībāchah) Hand note: Written in black nastaʿlīq script Decoration note: Double-page illuminated frontispiece; illuminated headpiece and tailpiece; cloud-bands; wide frame; text interspersed with rectangular and triangular decorative panels with floral motifs Decoration

fol. 1b: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece in the Safavid style. It precedes the preface (dībāchah) of the Dīvān. fol. 2a: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece Form: Frontispiece

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.634

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 Ḥāfiẓ al-Shīrāzī Name, in vernacular: Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: fl. 8th century AH / 14th CE

Abstract

This manuscript is an illuminated copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). Written in Safavid Iran in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE in black nastaʿlīq script, the codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece that precedes a preface (dībāchah) (fols. 1b-2a).

An illuminated headpiece (fol. 7b) inscribed fa-Llāh khayr ḥāfiẓan or "God is the best protector" (Sūrat Yūsuf, 12:64) introduces the initial verses of the Dīvān. There is an illuminated tailpiece inscribed with the work's final verses and a colophon with prayers for the prophet Muhammad and his family. The illumination of this manuscript exemplifies the Safavid style of the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The binding is not contemporary with the manuscript.

Date

10th century AH / 16th CE

Origin

Iran

Form

Book

Genre

Literary -- Poetry

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Colophon

199a: Transliteration: tammat al-kitāb bi-ʿawn al-malik al-Wahhāb wa-ṣallá Allāh /1/ ʿalá khayr khalqih Muḥammad wa-ālih

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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.634, 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