MS 323 (Manuscript Collections, The Fitzwilliam Museum)

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Summary of Contents: A copy of Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ by Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.

Title: Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ

Title: ديوان حافظ

Author: Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent. Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī حافظ شيرازى‏

Language(s): Persian

References

MS 323

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: Paper

Extent: 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)

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.

Seal(s):

History

Origin: c. 1540-1560 CE

Provenance 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

Persian poetry

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