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 illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Ḥāfiẓ (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE) dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The manuscript begins with a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a hunt, which is followed by an illuminated incipit page. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with gold and blue headings. There are five additional illustrations (fols. 50b, 76b, 99a, 124b, and 147b). The binding, which is not original to the codex, is covered with a gold-brocaded Safavid textile that dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE or twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with gold and blue headings
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
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
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
Non-original Binding
Probably late eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE or twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE; red leather with central panels on the boards and flap filled with gold-brocaded Safavid silk
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Seal impression: Muḥammad Ḥabīb
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Iran
10th century AH / 16th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
Seal impression: Muḥammad Ḥabīb
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This illuminated and illustrated Safavid copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Ḥāfiẓ (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE) dates to the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE. The manuscript begins with a double-page illustrated frontispiece depicting a hunt, which is followed by an illuminated incipit page. The text is written in black nastaʿlīq script with gold and blue headings. There are five additional illustrations (fols. 50b, 76b, 99a, 124b, and 147b). The binding, which is not original to the codex, is covered with a gold-brocaded Safavid textile that dates to the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE or twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE.
Written in nastaʿlīq script in black with gold and blue headings
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
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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