Collection of poems (divan), Walters Art Museum MS. W.636

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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.

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Lacquer binding (without flap); central panel filled with floral design; border with floral gold-painted motifs on a black ground Bibliography

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

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Label: The caption of this illustration reads: taṣvīr-i Iskandar Khiz̤r (thus). fol. 188a: Title: Kay Kāvus, Rustam, Jamshīd, and Kay Qubād Form: Illustration Label: The caption to this illustration reads: taṣvīr-i Kāvus Rustam Jam va-Kay. fol. 192a: Title: King Solomon and his demons before Jacob and Joseph Form: Illustration Label: The caption to this illustration reads: Sulaymān Yūsuf va-Yaʿqub. fol. 196a: Title: Khusraw and Shīrīn drinking wine Form: Illustration fol. 199b: Title: Illuminated headpiece Form: Headpiece Label: An inscription in the margin reads: tarkīb-bandi Ḥāfiẓ. fol. 202a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ recites complimentary verses for King Manṣūr Form: Illustration fol. 214a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ and Shāh Abū Isḥāq Form: Illustration Label: The inscription in the upper margin reads: tavārīkh (dates).

Provenance

Note dated 18 Shawwāl 1315 AH / 1897 CE (fol. 233b)

Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding

The binding is original.

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Form: Illustration fol. 132b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ recites verses in praise of a king Form: Illustration fol. 133b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ talks of the Water of Life as being better than his poetry Form: Illustration fol. 136b: Title: A convivial gathering Form: Illustration fol. 139a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ recites love poems for a beautiful girl Form: Illustration fol. 141a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ taken by the beauty of a young woman Form: Illustration fol. 157b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ recites complimentary verses to a king Form: Illustration fol. 163b: Title: Sultan Maḥmūd and his servant Iyāz Form: Illustration Label: The caption to this illustration reads: taṣvīr-i Sulṭān Maḥmūd va-Iyāz. fol. 169b: Title: Alexander the Great, who never drank the Water of Life Form: Illustration fol. 178b: Title: Majnūn in the company of Laylá Form: Illustration fol. 183b: Title: Alexander the Great and the prophet Khiḍr Form: Illustration

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fol. 97b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ, like a fish, is saved by his beloved whose beauty shines Form: Illustration Label: This illustration depicts the final verses on this page: "When my beloved takes the cup of wine, her beauty overshadows that of others. I have fallen into the sea like a fish; my beloved takes my hand and saves me." fol. 99a: Title: Laylá visits Majnūn Form: Illustration fol. 101b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ at the court of Sultan Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Form: Illustration fol. 105b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ reads a verse that disapproves of haughty people Form: Illustration fol. 110a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ complains about his beloved’s pride Form: Illustration fol. 114b: Title: Sultan Maḥmūd and his servant Iyāz Form: Illustration fol. 120b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ with a king, a policeman, a judge and a sufi, enjoying wine Form: Illustration fol. 125a: Title: King Solomon seated on his throne carried by demons Form: Illustration fol. 131b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ reciting verses on the habits of an elephant driver

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fol. 61a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ at the court of Manṣūr Shāh Form: Illustration fol. 63a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ, his beloved, and the prophet Khiḍr Form: Illustration fol. 68b: Title: Jacob, in the company of his sons, longs to hear news of Joseph Form: Illustration fol. 73b: Title: The beheading of Siyāvush on the order of Afrāsiyāb Form: Illustration fol. 75a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ extolling the virtues of his king Form: Illustration fol. 78b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ at a party with his friends Form: Illustration fol. 81b: Title: Laylá visits Majnūn in the wilderness Form: Illustration fol. 84a: Title: King Solomon and the hoopoe who brought news from Queen Sheba Form: Illustration fol. 91b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ delivers a message from Haẓrat Sulaymān permitting a drinking party Form: Illustration fol. 95b: Title: Ḥāfiẓ and a tavern keeper Form: Illustration

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Form: Illustration fol. 27a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ and his beloved Form: Illustration fol. 28a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ entertained by his friends Form: Illustration fol. 31a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ telling the story of Shaykh Ṣanʿān Form: Illustration fol. 38a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ talks of his passion to his beloved Form: Illustration fol. 41b: Title: Jacob with Joseph and his brothers Form: Illustration fol. 43a: Title: King Solomon and his courtiers Form: Illustration fol. 46a: Title: Joseph on the throne Form: Illustration Label: The caption to this illustration reads: taṣvīr-i Yūsuf. fol. 48a: Title: Ḥāfiẓ instructing an angel to kneel at the gate of a tavern Form: Illustration fol. 54b: Title: The prophet Khiḍr safely guides the boat to shore Form: Illustration fol. 58b: Title: Moses, holding a fiery rod, comes to meet his future wife Form: Illustration

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Decoration

fol. 2b: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the right side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) inscribed in the cartouche. The palette is typical for illuminated manuscripts from Kashmir during this period. fol. 3a: Title: Double-page illuminated frontispiece Form: Frontispiece Label: This is the left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) inscribed in the cartouche. The palette is typical for illuminated manuscripts from Kashmir during this period. fol. 8b: Title: The Prophet Muhammad (not depicted) ascends on Burāq Form: Illustration fol. 13b: Title: The story of Joseph and Zulaykhā Form: Illustration Label: This scene illustrates the story of Joseph (Yūsuf) and Zulaykhā, although it is unlikely that Joseph is the person depicted here, as he is generally represented with a halo. It is possible that Potiphar (al-`Aziz) is shown here. The inscription is not clear. fol. 19b: Title: Comparison of famous couples Form: Illustration Label: This illustration depicts three famous couples: Sultan Maḥmūd and Iyāz (top), Laylá and Majnūn (middle), and Farhād and Shīrīn (bottom). fol. 24b: Title: The famous couples Laylá and Majnūn and Farhād and Shīrīn

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Genre

Literary -- Poetry

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.

Colophon

231b: Transliteration: There are two colophons (199a and 231b) fol. 199a: tammat al-kitāb /1/ bi-ʿawn Malik [sic] /2/ al-Wahhāb rāqimuhu faqīr /3/ ḥaqīr Mullā /4/ Abū alQāsim /5/ ghafara Allāh dhanbahu /6/ fol. 231b: tammat tamām shud Dīvānī /1/ Ḥaẓrat Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī raḥmat Allāh ʿalayhi /2/ az dastkhaṭṭ-i /3/ aqall al-ʿibād Ghulām Muḥammadī maʿrūf bih Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim Hamadānī /4/ bi-tārīkh-i gurrat-i shahr-i Shawwāl almuʿaẓẓam taḥrīr yāft sanat-i 1210 /5/ Comment: Two colophons, the first in Arabic giving the name of the scribe as Mullā Abū al-Qāsim

Support material

Paper Laid paper, probably Kashmiri

Extent

Foliation: ii+232+ii

Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Dimensions

9.0 cm wide by 14.0 cm high

Written surface

5.5 cm wide by 9.5 cm high

Layout

Columns: 2 Ruled lines: 14 Framing lines in blue, orange, gold, and black

Contents

fols. 2b - 231b: Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ Incipit: Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script (Indian hand) Decoration note: Forty-eight illustrations; double-page illuminated frontispiece; illuminated headpiece; square and rectangular pieces with floral motifs; framing lines in blue, orange, gold, and black

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.636

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 is an illustrated and illuminated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz alShīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE), produced in India, possibly Kashmir. According to the colophon on fol. 231b, the text was completed by Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim Hamadānī on the 1st Shawwāl 1210 AH / 1796 CE. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a) and is decorated throughout with square and rectangular panels as well as horizontal bands with floral decoration marking the end of odes, quatrains, or series of verses. There are forty-eight illustrations. The lacquer binding with central floral design is contemporary with the manuscript.

Date

1st Shawwāl 1210 AH / 1796 CE

Origin

India (Kashmir?)

Scribe

As-written name: Ghulām Muḥammadī maʿrūf bih Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim Hamadānī Name, in vernacular: Known as: Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim Hamadānī Note: The colophon on fol. 199a gives the name of the scribe as Mullā Abū al-Qāsim. It is not certain if he is the same as Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim.

Form

Book

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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.636, 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/

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