• ديوان حافظ
  • Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.

Language:
  • Persian
Call number:
  • Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 62G
  • Electronic Resource
Extent:
  • 134 leaves : paper, ill. ; 246 x 157 (170 x 95) mm.
Format:
  • Manuscript
  • Book
Description:
  • Ms. codex.
  • Title supplied by cataloger.
  • Physical description: 3 columns to the page, with 15 lines per column (outer column written diagonally with 10 lines to the column). Written in nastaʻlīq. Entries in gold and blue.
  • Decoration: Six full-page miniatures on fol. 1b, 2a, 67b, 107a, 132b, 133a. The manuscript opens and ends with two full-page miniatures (fol.1b-2a and 132b-133a), with floral decor in gold on the margin. Miniatures are also found on fol. 67b (dated 926 or 936 H.) and on fol. 107a.
  • Decoration: Illuminations in gold and colors and margins decorated with flowers and animals executed in gold on fol. 2b, 3a, 68a, 107a, 132b and 133a.
  • Decoration: The two first pages of the text (fol. 2b-3a) are magnificently illuminated, in blue, gold, and colors, with a decor of flowers, trees, and animals in gold on the margin. Similar decoration on the last two pages of the text (fol. 131b-132a).
  • Origin: According to colophon, copy completed in Jumād[á] al-Thānī 926 [1520] (or 936? [1530], fol. 132a). Miniature 2 (fol. 2a) bears the same date.
  • Incipit: الا يا ايها الساقى ادر كاسا ونولها
Publisher:
  • [1520]
Subject:
  • Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton
  • Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic empire—16th century
  • Illuminated manuscripts—Iran—16th century
  • Illuminations (visual works)—Iran—16th century
  • Lacquered bindings—Iran—16th century
Date:
  • 1520
Author:
  • Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent
Abstract:
  • Illuminated copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ.
Creator:
  • Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent
  • حافظ
Collections:
  • Robert Garrett
  • Princeton Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts
  • Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dj52w476m
Spatial:
  • New Jersey
References:
  • Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 15
Binding note:
  • Lacquered binding, with central panel consisting of a floral arabesque with birds and animal heads developing around a central eight pointed star. Orange leather doublure elaborately tooled in gilt.
Provenance:
  • Acquired from ʻAlī Qulī Khān (Ali-Kuli-Khan), 1925 (see inscription on fol. (i)a).
Source acquisition:
  • Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
Location:
  • HSVM Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 62G
  • HSVM Electronic Resource
  • ELF1 Islamic Manuscripts, Garrett no. 62G
  • ELF1 Electronic Resource
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