[Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ]. - Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century; Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur, active 1739; Buck, Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett), 1887-1959; Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937; Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932; Macan, Turner, 1792-1836; Zucker, Hyman; Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts ([India?])
Copy of a collection of Ḥāfiẓ's poetry with no preface.
Binding: Rebound in 1918 by H. Zucker of Philadelphia in red leather with gold tooled spine, turn-ins, border and frame with gold-tooled flowers in the corners and centered along each side between the border and the frame; Hafiz is gold-stamped on the spine; plain brown pastedowns.
Decoration: Illuminated headpiece in gold with green, purple and blue flowers (pages 2); each page is border-ruled in gold, red, and blue with the page-opening ruled in blue; the columns are divided by double gold rules.
Foliation: Modern pagination added in pencil, lower outer corners; catchwords every verso, lower left.
Layout: 15 lines in two columns; border-ruled.
Ms. codex.
Origin: The item is undated and the scribe is not named; likely copied in India, probably in the 18th century.
Keywords: 747-1799; Manuscripts, Oriental -- 18th century; Manuscripts, Persian -- 18th century; Persian poetry -- 747-1500.; Manuscripts, Oriental; Manuscripts, Persian; Persian poetry