This is an illustrated and illuminated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE), produced in India, possibly Kashmir. According to the colophon on fol. 231b, the text was completed by Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim Hamadānī on the 1st Shawwāl 1210 AH / 1796 CE. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a) and is decorated throughout with square and rectangular panels as well as horizontal bands with floral decoration marking the end of odes, quatrains, or series of verses. There are forty-eight illustrations. The lacquer binding with central floral design is contemporary with the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script (Indian hand)
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.
India (Kashmir?)
1st Shawwāl 1210 AH / 1796 CE
book
Original Binding
Lacquer binding (without flap); central panel filled with floral design; border with floral gold-painted motifs on a black ground
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Note dated 18 Shawwāl 1315 AH / 1897 CE
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
India (Kashmir?)
1st Shawwāl 1210 AH / 1796 CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Arabic.
Note dated 18 Shawwāl 1315 AH / 1897 CE
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
This is an illustrated and illuminated copy of the collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE), produced in India, possibly Kashmir. According to the colophon on fol. 231b, the text was completed by Mullā Muḥammad Qāsim Hamadānī on the 1st Shawwāl 1210 AH / 1796 CE. The codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece (fols. 2b-3a) and is decorated throughout with square and rectangular panels as well as horizontal bands with floral decoration marking the end of odes, quatrains, or series of verses. There are forty-eight illustrations. The lacquer binding with central floral design is contemporary with the manuscript.
Written in nastaʿlīq script (Indian hand)
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.
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