Collection of poems (divan), Walters Art Museum MS. W.637

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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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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fol. 87b: Title: The beloved admired by Jamshīd and Kay Khusraw Form: Illustration Label: This page illustrates the first couplet on the page, in which the poet comments that his beloved has hundreds of Jamshīds and Kay Khusraws as slaves. fol. 103a: Title: Alexander the Great and the prophet Khiḍr Form: Illustration fol. 115b: Title: The crucifixion of Ḥallāj Form: Illustration fol. 124b: Title: King Solomon in the company of angels, demons, and flying birds Form: Illustration fol. 134a: Title: Paradise represented by a pavilion in a garden with water pools and angels Form: Illustration fol. 137b: Title: Sultan Maḥmūd and Iyāz Form: Illustration fol. 145b: Title: Jamshīd enthroned Form: Illustration Acquisition

Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

Binding

The binding is original.

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

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fol. 24a: Title: A wine party Form: Illustration fol. 37a: Title: Shīrīn before Farhād, who is cutting through rocks Form: Illustration fol. 43b: Title: Jamshīd and Kay Khusraw Form: Illustration fol. 50a: Title: King Solomon with his magic seal (signet) and a demon Form: Illustration fol. 57a: Title: Jamshīd and Kay Qubād Form: Illustration fol. 59b: Title: Alexander the Great and his magic mirror Form: Illustration Label: Ḥāfiẓ, like Iskandar (Alexander the Great), uses a mirror to seek his beloved. fol. 67b: Title: Kay Khusraw prefers the Water of Life to wine Form: Illustration fol. 74a: Title: Jacob becomes blind during his long wait without hearing anything from Joseph Form: Illustration fol. 75b: Title: Farhād carries Shīrīn and her dead horse to her castle Form: Illustration fol. 85a: Title: Shīrīn visits Farhād with her men Form: Illustration

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Ruled lines: 13 Framing lines in blue, orange, gold, and black Contents

fols. 1b - 171a: Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ Incipit: Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script (Indian hand) Decoration note: Twenty illustrations; illuminated headpiece; framing lines in blue, orange, gold, and black

Decoration

Upper board outside: Title: Binding Form: Binding Label: This lacquer binding is decorated with a floral central design surrounded by a border of gold-painted floral motifs on a black ground. It dates to the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. fol. 1b: Title: Incipit page with headpiece Form: Incipit; headpiece Label: This painted incipit page has a headpiece inscribed with the doxological formula (basmalah). fol. 4b: Title: The Prophet Muhammad (not depicted) ascends on Burāq Form: Illustration fol. 10a: Title: King Solomon seated on his throne carried by demons Form: Illustration fol. 18b: Title: Laylá and Majnūn and Sultan Maḥmūd and Iyāz Form: Illustration Label: In the foreground of this illustration, Sultan Maḥmūd and his favorite, Iyāz, are shown. Behind are Laylá and Majnūn. All four are referred to in this ode.

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Shelf mark

Walters Art Museum Ms. W.637

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, in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. It opens with an illuminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) (fol. 1b); there are twenty illustrations. The lacquer binding with central floral design is contemporary with the manuscript.

Date

13th century AH / 19th CE

Origin

India (Kashmir?)

Form

Book

Genre

Literary -- Poetry

Language

The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Support material

Paper Laid paper, probably Kashmiri

Extent

Foliation: i+171+ii

Collation

Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Dimensions

8.0 cm wide by 13.5 cm high

Written surface

5.5 cm wide by 10.0 cm high

Layout

Columns: 2

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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.637, 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