collection of poems (divan), walters art museum ms. w.631

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The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles StreetBaltimore, Maryland

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This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

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

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Label: In this scene, figures are seated in a gardenlandscape dressed in the early Safavid style drinkingwine. The verses before and after the illustration arein white nasta‘līq script on a gold ground. The bordersare decorated in an illuminated floral pattern, perhapsstenciled.

Binding The binding is original.

Dark brown leather (with flap) with gold-brushed centralpanel and frames panel-stamped in relief; central panel withlobed medallion and pendants and an allover floral and vinedecoration

Acquisition Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest

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

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

Contributors Principal cataloger: Gacek, AdamCatalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, SitaCopy editor: Bockrath, DianeConservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, AbigailContributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert,Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel;Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara

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Form: Frontispiece; illustrationLabel: The right side of this double-page illustratedfrontispiece depicts King Solomon (Sulaymān)enthroned. He is surrounded by the beasts over whichhe reigns, including dīvs and birds, mostly likelythe hoopoe. Angels are above. At some point in themanuscript's history, figures' faces seem to have beenpurposefully erased.

fol. 3a:Title: Left side of a double-page illustrated frontispiecedepicting Queen Sheba (Bilqīs) enthronedForm: Frontispiece; illustrationLabel: The left side of this double-page illustratedfrontispiece depicts Queen Sheba (Bilqīs) enthroned.She is surrounded by attendants and animals, bothreal and fantastic. Above her is a flying mythical bird(sīmurgh).

fol. 3b:Title: Illuminated incipit page with titlepieceForm: Incipit; titlepieceLabel: This illuminated incipit page has a titlepieceinscribed with the title Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ in white nasta‘līqscript. It is also decorated with interlinear illuminationand a heading with polychrome decoration. There is anerased seal at the right.

fol. 114a:Title: A garden reception (majlis)Form: IllustrationLabel: A princely figure is shown in female and malecompany. All male figures with the exception of one ina blue cloak wear the early Safavid headgear definedby a high red baton. The participants are drinking wine.The standing figure held steady by another is clearlyinebriated. It is possible that the seated figure in bluerepresents the poet Ḥāfiẓ.

fol. 150b:Title: A garden reception (majlis)Form: Illustration

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al-ʿālamīn fī ta<ʾ>rīkh salkhi /3/ Ṣafar khutima [sic] bi-al-khayr wa-al-ẓafar /4/ sanat 946 /5/ m [=tamma] m [=tamma]m [=tamma] /6/Comment: Partly vocalized in Arabic in the shape of atriangle; gives date of copying

Support material Paper

Laid paper

Extent Foliation: i+172+ii

Collation Catchwords: Written obliquely on versos

Comments:

Dimensions 13.0 cm wide by 22.0 cm high

Written surface 6.0 cm wide by 13.0 cm high

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

Contents fols. 2b - 172a:Title: Dīvān-i ḤāfiẓAuthor: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.Incipit:

Text note: One folio with miniature missing after fol. 80Hand note: Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink withsection headings in blue and goldDecoration note: Double-page illustrated frontispiece(fols. 2b-3a); two text illustrations (fols. 114a and150b); illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribedDīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ and interlinear illumination (fol. 3b);section headings; framing lines in blue, gold, red, andblack

Decoration fol. 2b:Title: Right side of a double-page illustratedfrontispiece depicting King Solomon (Sulaymān)enthroned

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Shelf mark Walters Art Museum Ms. W.631

Descriptive Title Collection of poems (divan)

Text title Dīvān-i ḤāfiẓVernacular:

Author Authority name: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.As-written name: Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-ShīrāzīName, in vernacular:

Note: Author dates preferred by cataloger: fl. 8th centuryAH / 14th CE

Abstract This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the collectionof poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). The text iswritten in nasta‘līq script and is dated to the end of Ṣafar946 AH / 1539 CE. The manuscript opens with a double-page illustrated frontispiece of an enthroned King Solomon(Sulaymān) and Queen Sheba (Bilqīs) (fols. 2b-3a), followedby an illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribed Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ. There are two additional illustrations of figuresconversing and drinking in outdoor landscapes (fols. 114aand 150b). The dark brown leather binding, which is originalto the manuscript, is panel-stamped in relief with a centrallobed medallion with pendants and an allover floral and vinedecoration.

Date End of Ṣafar 946 AH / 1539 CE

Origin Iran

Form Book

Genre Literary -- Poetry

Language The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

Colophon fol. 172a:Transliteration: tammat [sic] al-kitāb bi-ʿawni Allāhi al-maliki al-wahhāb wa-ṣallá Allāh /1/ ʿalá khayr khalqihMuḥammad wa-ālihi ajmaʿin wa-al-ḥamd li-Llāhi /2/ rabbi

This document is a digital facsimile of selections from a manuscript belonging to the Walters ArtMuseum, in Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States. It is one of a number of manuscriptsthat have been digitized as part of a project generously funded by the National Endowment forthe Humanities, and by an anonymous donor to the Walters Art Museum. More details aboutthe manuscripts at the Walters can be found by visiting The Walters Art Museum's websitewww.thewalters.org. For further information about this book, and online resources for Waltersmanuscripts, please contact us through the Walters Website by email, and ask for your message tobe directed to the Department of Manuscripts.

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license

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A digital facsimile of selections fromWaltersMs. W.631, Collection of poems (divan)

Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ

Published by: The Walters Art Museum600 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21201

http://www.thewalters.org/