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 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 is written in nasta‘līq script and is dated to the end of Ṣafar 946 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), followed by an illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribed Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ. There are two additional illustrations of figures conversing and drinking in outdoor landscapes (fols. 114a and 150b). 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.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink with section headings in blue and gold
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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
End of Ṣafar 946 AH / 1539 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
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
End of Ṣafar 946 AH / 1539 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This 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 is written in nasta‘līq script and is dated to the end of Ṣafar 946 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), followed by an illuminated incipit with titlepiece inscribed Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ. There are two additional illustrations of figures conversing and drinking in outdoor landscapes (fols. 114a and 150b). 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.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink with section headings in blue and gold
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Cataloger: Landau, Amy
Cataloger: Smith, Sita
Copy 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.
Clear All