Description of Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis O 76: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.Free Library of PhiladelphiaThese images and the content of Rare Book Department Lewis O 76: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book Department Lewis O 76: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.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.PhiladelphiaFree Library of PhiladelphiaRare Book DepartmentLewis O 762460530http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104210081http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0023/html/lewis_o_076.htmlhttps://know.freelibrary.org/Record/2460530Copy 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.PersianDīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ.[ديوان حافظ]Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th centuryحافظ،Free Library of Philadelphia. Rare Book Department. John Frederick Lewis Collection of Oriental Manuscriptsformer ownerLewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932donorLewis, Anne Baker, 1868-19371v[Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ].
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i, 181, i leaves : 152 x 90 (100 x 50) mm bound to 152 x 95 mmModern foliation added in pencil, upper left recto; catchwords every verso, lower left.11 lines in two columns; border-ruled.Written in nastaʻlīq in black ink; pointed.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.Catalog entryIlluminated headpieceIlluminated floral fill (every page)
Bound in plain, brown leather with a blind tooled frame; pink leather doublure.
The item is undated and the scribe is not named; likely copied in India, probably in the 18th century.
17--?India?Formerly owned by John Frederick Lewis.Persian literature--747-1500Persian poetry--747-1500Manuscripts, Persian--18th centuryManuscripts, Oriental--18th centuryManuscripts, OrientalManuscripts, PersianPersian literaturePersian poetryCodices (bound manuscripts)Illuminations (painting)Manuscripts (documents)Blind tooled (decoration)