Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Persian—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Lacquered bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic empire—16th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Iran—16th century [Browse]
• Illuminations (visual works)—Iran—16th century [Browse]

Summary note

Illuminated copy of the Dīwān of Ḥāfiẓ.

Notes

• 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

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.

References

Moghadam, M. et al. Garrett coll., 15

Other format(s)

Microfilm negative available for reproduction.

OCLC

255964873

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