The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This is an illuminated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). The manuscript is written in black nastaʿlīq script by ʿAlī Qulī Barrāk (?) and dated Shaʿbān 966 AH / 1559 CE. The text opens with an illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribed: Dīvān-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī ʿalayhi al-raḥmah (fol. 1b). The text of the incipit and the facing page (fols. 1b-2a) has gilt interlinear decoration. The dark brown leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, is panel-stamped in relief with a central lobed medallion with pendants and an allover floral and vine decoration. The doublures of red-brown leather have a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces in leather filigree on a blue ground.
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
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
18 Shaʿbān 966 AH / 1559 CE
book
Original Binding
Dark brown leather (with flap) with gold-brushed central panel and frames panel-stamped in relief; central panel with lobed medallion and pendants and an allover floral and vine decoration; doublures of red-brown leather with a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces in leather filigree on a blue ground
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Erased bequest seal and statement, probably of SultanʿUthmān Khān, signed by [Ibrāhīm] Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf, and the shelfmarks 3815 and 3795 (crossed out) (fol. 1a) (provenance)
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
18 Shaʿbān 966 AH / 1559 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Erased bequest seal and statement, probably of SultanʿUthmān Khān, signed by [Ibrāhīm] Ḥanīf, inspector of awqāf, and the shelfmarks 3815 and 3795 (crossed out) (fol. 1a) (provenance)
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illuminated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). The manuscript is written in black nastaʿlīq script by ʿAlī Qulī Barrāk (?) and dated Shaʿbān 966 AH / 1559 CE. The text opens with an illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribed: Dīvān-i Khvājah Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī ʿalayhi al-raḥmah (fol. 1b). The text of the incipit and the facing page (fols. 1b-2a) has gilt interlinear decoration. The dark brown leather binding, which is original to the manuscript, is panel-stamped in relief with a central lobed medallion with pendants and an allover floral and vine decoration. The doublures of red-brown leather have a central medallion, pendants, and cornerpieces in leather filigree on a blue ground.
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
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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