Accession number
MS M.15
Object title
Dīvān (MS M.15).
Display Date
1537.
Created
Shīrāz, Iran, 1537.
Binding
Former binding: Trimmed on the top, bottom and edge next to the spine; recessed center panel has a stippled gold background and slightly raised golden cloud bands and flowers; recessed panels of vine rinceaux above and below the main field; a narrow braid and blind fillets used for the border; tan leather doublures with center scalloped medallions, pendants, and corners of small, black leather arabesque filigrane over slate-blue parchment; braid borders, fillets, and short tooth motifs surround the center medallions as well as the edges; flap is missing; binding has been preserved.
Credit line
Acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan.
Description
156 leaves (2 columns, 14 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 202 x 120 mm
Provenance
Dada Shaikh Naqshbandi al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rashīd (son of) Dada Muḥammad Kāmil; W.W. Meriam (note on fol. 156v dated "Philippopolis, Aug. '60"), presented the manuscript to Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Warren of Waltham, Massachussetts; John Bigelow, New York, ca. 1904; acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. poems of Ḥāfiẓ; written and illuminated probably in Shīrāz, Iran, 4 Rabʻ̄i II 944 (i.e., Nov. 11, 1537).
On fol. 1r is an inscription in Armenian script but in the Turkish language identifying the work; fol. 155v contains Turkish poetry--Cf. Schmitz.
Decoration: 3 miniatures and a double-page frontispiece; text is in black nastaʻlīq and the headings are in gold and blue tawqī (linked script).
On fol. 1r is an inscription in Armenian script but in the Turkish language identifying the work; fol. 155v contains Turkish poetry--Cf. Schmitz.
Decoration: 3 miniatures and a double-page frontispiece; text is in black nastaʻlīq and the headings are in gold and blue tawqī (linked script).
Script
nastaʻlīq and tawqīʻ
Language
Persian
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