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This manuscript is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). The text was written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink on buff and rose-tinted laid paper in Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE. The codex contains four illustrations (fols. 41a, 95b, 147a, and 179b). The dark brown goatskin binding with central medallion and pendants panel-stamped in relief is original to the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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; 2: 326-8.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Iran
Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE
book
Original Binding
Dark brown goatskin (with flap); central medallion and pendants panel-stamped in relief
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Muṣṭafá Pāshā Vālī-i Iskandarīyah, 1231
Ḥasan Ḥaqqī, 1285
Ḥasan Ḥaqqī Vālī-i Salānīk, 1303
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Muṣṭafá Pāshā Vālī-i Iskandarīyah, 1231
Ḥasan Ḥaqqī, 1285
Ḥasan Ḥaqqī Vālī-i Salānīk, 1303
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This manuscript is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). The text was written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink on buff and rose-tinted laid paper in Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE. The codex contains four illustrations (fols. 41a, 95b, 147a, and 179b). The dark brown goatskin binding with central medallion and pendants panel-stamped in relief is original to the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Contributor: Barrera, Christina
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Herbert, Lynley
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Simpson, Shreve
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Valle, Chiara
Conservator: Jewell, Stephanie
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
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; 2: 326-8.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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