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 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, in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. It opens with an illuminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) (fol. 1b); there are twenty 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.
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.
India (Kashmir?)
13th century AH / 19th 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 Persian.
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
India (Kashmir?)
13th century AH / 19th CE
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.
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, in the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth CE. It opens with an illuminated headpiece with the doxological formula (basmalah) (fol. 1b); there are twenty 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.
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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