Details

Subject(s)

• Ḥāfiẓ 14th cent—Dīvān [Browse]
• حافظ—دىوان [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Turkish—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Summary note

A commentary on the divan of Ḥāfiẓ.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title from fol. 1a (a later addition in purple crayon).
• Copied by Molla İbrahim bin el-hac Mehmet Remmah Zade, from Antakya, and completed in Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1164 (1751) -- colophon (fol. 148a).
• 21-23 lines per page. Written in a very casual small to medium small naskh in black ink with use of red for rubrication. From fol. 1 to fol. 42, the text starts off in one style, with written area more narrow and with more lines per page, after which it changes to less lines and the text is inside a frame outlined in a single line of red ink. After fol. 42 the paper changes too. The script in the first section is slightly larger, but the hand is not substantially different and could still be that of the scribe of the rest of the ms. Catchwords on the verso of each leaf. Glazed European paper with watermarks (some of the paper towards the end of the ms has frame-ruled margins). Several short inscriptions on front pastedown and fol. ia. An oblitarated ownership statement and an obliterated oval stamp on fol. 1a.
• Incipit: الحمد لله الذي حفظ الذكر عن تحريف ريب المنون كما قال انا نحن نزلنا الذكر وانا له لحافظون ... اما بعد بو سروري شكسته دل
• Explicit: ضميري صوفى براجع در يعنى فلك اوينى

Binding note

Half leather with envelope flap. Glazed ochre paper with an embossed panel design on covers, consisting of a rectangle with four foliage pattern corner pieces and a central mandorla with pendants. Yellow paper with an embossed mandorla on the envelope flap. Brown leather on spine, fore edge flap and around the edges of the envelope flap. The binding is substantially damaged and very fragile.

Language note

In Ottoman Turkish.

Provenance

• Ownership statement in the name of Seyit Yahya el-Şüküfi el-Meraşî, dated 1200 (1785-86) and accompanied by his stamp, on fol. ib.
• Ownership statement in the name of Seyit Mustafa ibn Ahmet ibn Abdulnafi, known as Tatar Efendi, on fol. 1a, accompanied by two completely oblitared small octagonal stamps.

References

Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland, XIII, 5 (263)

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

OCLC

154320162

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