About this Item

Title

• Dīvān.
  

Other Title

• ديوان.
  

Summary

• Poems of Ḥāfiẓ.
  

Contributor Names

• Ḥāfiẓ, active 14th century, author.
  
• Awḥadī, Munʻim al-Dīn, scribe.
  

Created / Published

• Z̲ū al-Qaʻdah 923 al-Hijrīyah [November/December 1517]
  

Subject Headings

• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
  
• -  Iran
  

Notes

• -  Manuscript.
  
• -  Persian.
  
• -  Title and author from colophon.
  
• -  Written by Munʻim al-Dīn al-Awḥadī al-Ḥusaynī.
  
• -  Iran.
  
• -  Paper; buff color laid paper with no visible chain-lines or watermarks; elaborately illuminated bifolium in gold, blue and red; text in two columns surrounded by gold and blue border; black ink, section titles in blue ink; catchwords on rectos.
  
• -  Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 15 x 7.5 cm.
  
• -  Folios 1b-162a.
  
• -  Library of Congress. Persian manuscript, M 25.
  
• -  Binding repaired in late 19th century (?) in dark brown leather original binding on front and back covers incorporated; three embossed medallions, embossed Qurʼanic verses around the edges.
  
• -  Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website.
  

Medium

• 162 leaves (15 lines), bound : paper, 22.4 x 13.2 cm