Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.
[ديوان حافظ]

Authors

• Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century
  حافظ،
• Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscripts

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 76
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2460530
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104210081
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_076.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2460530

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of a collection of Ḥāfiẓ's poetry with no preface; each page has a central column divider of pink and blue flowers on a gold field.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Catalog entry, lot 380, pasted into front inside cover. The entry and the Simsar catalog (p. 128) make reference to a stamp on the first flyleaf of Charles Mariet Caldicott and dated 1829 that is now missing.
   

Extent

I, 181, i leaves : 152 x 90 (100 x 50) mm bound to 152 x 95 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

Binding

Bound in plain, brown leather with a blind tooled frame; pink leather doublure.

Layout

11 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold and blue (f. 1v); each page is border-ruled in blue, gold, black, and beige with the page-opening ruled in double black; the columns are divided by a central line of gold with pink and blue flowers painted on it; the same flowers on a gold field also appear at the ends of headers.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

• Persian literature--747-1500
• Persian poetry--747-1500
• Manuscripts, Persian--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental--18th century
• Manuscripts, Oriental
• Manuscripts, Persian
• Persian literature
• Persian poetry

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Illuminations (painting)
• Manuscripts (documents)
• Blind tooled (decoration)

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — [Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ].

Decorations

• Insert recto, left side — Catalog entry
• fol. 1v — Illuminated headpiece
• fol. 2r — Illuminated floral fill (every page)