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

• Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur, active 1739, former owner
  حيات الله خان بهادر،
• Macan, Turner, 1792-1836, former owner
• Buck, Mitchell S. 1887-1959, former owner
• Zucker, Hyman, binder
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner
• Lewis, Anne Baker, 1868-1937, donor

Call number

Lewis O 75
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 2515780
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1124679538
• http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_075.html
• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2515780

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Persian

Origin

Date

17--?

Place

India?

Summary

Copy of a collection of Ḥāfiẓ's poetry with no preface.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Two bookplates and a card pasted into front inside cover; a note of ownership in Persian in ink on page 1 and poems by that owner's son, ʻAbd Allāh, written onto the last leaf (p. 428).
   

Extent

Ii, 213, ii leaves : 275 x 165 (213 x 100) mm bound to 280 x 175 mm

Foliation

Modern pagination added in pencil, lower outer corners; catchwords every verso, lower left.

Support

Paper

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.

Layout

15 lines in two columns; border-ruled.

Decoration

Illuminated headpiece in gold with green, purple and blue flowers (p. 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.

Script

Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.

Provenance

• Formely owned by Ḥayāt Allāh Khān Bahādur in the 20th year of Muḥammad Shāh Pādishāh's reign (=1739) (note in ink p. 1).
   
• Formerly owned by Turner Macan (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by Mitchell S. Buck (bookplate inside front cover).
   
• Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• 2 — [Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ].

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "Turner Macan"
• Inside front cover — Bookplate: "Mitchell S. Buck"
• Inside front cover — Card
• 1 — Owner's notations
• 2 — Illuminated headpiece
• 428 — Notations