Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 62G

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS13660

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 62G

Title:

Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ

Author:

Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent / حافظ

Hafez WIKIDATA

Date:

1520

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 134 leaves : paper, ill. ; 246 x 157 (170 x 95) mm.

Note:

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.
Acquired from ʻAlī Qulī Khān (Ali-Kuli-Khan), 1925 (see inscription on fol. (i)a).

Keyword:

illuminations (paintings)

Lacquered bindings

Manuscripts, Persian

Poetry

miniatures (paintings)

illuminated manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9955761253506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/d478aa41-89b2-46c9-a169-5c40e141718c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University