Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī
- Holding institution:
- University of Michigan
- Data provider:
- University of Michigan
- Title:
- Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ-i Shīrāzī
دیوان حافظ شیرازی - Creator:
- Ḥāfiẓ
حافظ - Contributor:
- Abdülhamid II, Sultan of the Turks, former owner
Mustafa Reşit, former owner
Niẓām ibn Mīr ʻAlī, scribe
مصطفى رشيد، مالك سابق
نظام ابن مير على, ناسخ - Date:
- [1625].
- Description:
- Shelfmark: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Special Collections Research Center Isl. Ms. 318Origin: As appears in colophon on p.358, copied by Niẓām ibn Mīr ʻAlī with transcription completed in Rabīʻ I 1035 [December 1625].Former shelfmark: "126 T. De M. [i.e. Tammaro De Marinis]" inscribed in pencil on 'title page' (p.1).Binding: Pasteboards covered in dark red leather ; Type III binding (without flap) ; two-piece binding (seam of overlapping flanges visible at spine) ; pastedowns and flyleaves in glossy, surfaced-dyed blue wove paper ; upper and lower covers carry stamped and gold-painted guillioché roll (series of s-shaped stamps) and flanking rules ; sewn in dark brown or gray thread, two stations, tightly bound ; worked chevron endbands in pink and yellow, good condition ; housed in sturdy slipcase covered in dark purple / blue leather with tooled and gold-painted borders and rosette accents, lined with yellow paper and fitted with peach / orange woven pull cord ; overall in fairly good condition ; one narrow side of slipcase detaching.Support: non-European (likely Persian) laid paper with roughly 8 laid lines per cm. (vertical, fairly distinct) and occasional single chain lines visible, dense and sturdy though transluscent, medium cream in color, well-burnished ; some creasing, tears and cockling due to tight binding ; repairs in European laid paper and wove paper.Decoration: Elegant illuminated headpieces at opening of preface on p.2 and at opening of dīvān proper (with ghazals) on p.9, each consisting of large rectangular piece with empty gold cartouche surmounted by rectangular piece filled with scalloped domes in gold and lapis all overlaid with swirling floral vegetal decoration in red, yellow, green, light blue, etc., set in a rich well of heavy gold interlace and turquoise, dark red / brown, and gold bands, and surmounted by vertical stalks (tīgh) ; text of incipit and facing page at opening of preface and opening of dīvān set off by gold cloud-bands ; written area surrounded by gold frame of medium gold band and outermost gold and blue fillets, divisions within defined by narrow gold bands outlined in black ; keywords and headings chrysographed ; some overlining in gold.Script: Nastaʻlīq (talik) ; spacious, elegant hand in a medium line ; characteristically serifless with gentle descent of words to baseline, elongation and contrasting thickness of horizontal strokes, pointing in distinct dots, point of final nūn set down in somewhat narrow, slightly angled bowl.Layout: Written in 15 lines per page with written area divided to two columns ; frame-ruled.Collation: i, 22 IV (176), II-1 (179), i ; almost exclusively quaternions ; cathwords present ; pagination in pencil, Western numerals, supplied during cataloguing.Colophon: "Scribal," triangular, reads "تمت بعون الله الملک الغنی فی ید العبد المذنب نظام ابن میر علی غفر ذنوبه فی تاریخ شهر ربیع الاول سنه خمس وثلثین والف من الهجرت النبویهExplicit: "گفتم سخن تو گفت حافظ گفتا شادی همه لطیفه گویان صلوات"Incipit: "حمد بیحد و ثناى بیعد خداوندی را که جمیع دیوان حافظان ارزاق بپروانه ..."Title from inscriptions on 'title page' (p.1).Ms. codex.Elegant copy of the Dīvān of the masterful poet Ḥāfiẓ (Khvājah Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, d.1390?). Contributions to the cataloguing from Elizabeth Kunze.
- Language:
- Persian
- Type (Narrower):
- Manuscripts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Manuscripts, Persian
Persian poetry 747-1500. - Time period:
- 747-1500
- Extent:
- 179 leaves : paper ; 211 x 128 (161 x 74) mm.
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Format:
- Book
Manuscript/Archive
Online
Print - Same as:
- https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/006814126