MS 323 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)
- Display:
-
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Contents
Summary of Contents: A copy of Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ by Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.Physical Description
Form: codexSupport: PaperExtent: 232 ff.Dimensions (leaf): 205 × 128 mm.Dimensions (written): 135 × 77 mm.Layout
Each page of text is set within rules of blue, pink, gold, green and vermillion. The poetic text is then divided into two columns, 12 lines to a page.
Hand(s)
Seal(s):Decoration
The double-page frontespiece presents two central medallions and an elaborate gold and blue frame with plychrome floral scrolls. At the beginning of the poetical text on ff. 8v-9r, there is a gold and blue decorative heading with fully decorated borders with gilded flowers.
There are 6 paintings.
History
Origin: c. 1540-1560 CEProvenance and Acquisition
Purchased in 1928 from a fund bequeathed by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1922.
Record Sources
Manuscript description based on Francis Wormald and Phyllis M. Giles "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Illuminated Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum acquired between 1895 and 1979 (excluding the McClean Collection)", Cambridge University Press, 1982; with corrections and additions supplied by Marcus Fraser and Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti.Availability
The manuscript can be consulted in the Graham Robertson Study room at The Fitzwilliam Museum, on an appointment only basis. To request an appointment, please email collections@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk citing the manuscript number.
Funding of Cataloguing
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Subjects
TO TOP
See the Availability section of this record for information on viewing the item in a reading room.