The poet Hafiz. Mughal, c.1780. Richard Johnson Collection. Purchased 1807. Inscribed above in Persian: ‘shabeh Khwaja Hafiz Shiraz rahmatallah ‘laihu’ ... (a likeness of Hafiz of Shiraz, God have mercy on him). Drawing; laid down on paper. 120 by 80 mm; page 175 by 124 mm. Hafiz reads by...
This volume contains a collection of anecdotes on curious instances of fal in which passages taken at random from the Divan-i Hafız, as well as the Qur'an, the Mesnevi, and the poems of Jāmī, were found to give answers of striking fitness to the enquirers. The author of the text is given as Hüse...
This volume contains the Ottoman Turkish commentary on the Divan of Hafız by Sudi. Sudi was a native of Bosnia, during the latter part of his life he was employed as preceptor for the pages in the palace of İbrahim Paşa (Grand Vezir 1004-10 AH/1595-1602 CE). He left, apart from the current work...
This volume contains a collection of anecdotes on the auguries (fal) to be derived from passages taken at random from Hafız, Rumi, Jāmī and the Qur'an, by Hüseyin el-Kefevi (died 1010 AH/1601-02 CE). Each anecdote appears under the name of the person to whom it relates. The manuscript is undat...
This volume contains the latter half of the Ottoman Turkish commentary on the Divan of Hafız by Sudi of Bosnia (died 1005 AH/1595-96 CE). On the last folio is a chronogram that states that the work was completed in 1003 AH (1594-95 CE). The text contains a single unvan, and the first two folio...
This volume contains the Dīvān-i Ḥāfiẓ (ديوان حافظ) with an interlinear Ottoman Turkish translation in metre, of fairly early date, possibly even the 16th century CE. The Divan is followed by Munājāt-i ᶜabdallāh Anṣārī (مناجات عبد الله انصارى) in Persian. This manuscript was likely copied in th...
This volume contains Sudi Bosnevi’s (died 1007 AH/1599 CE [?]) Ottoman Turkish commentary of the Divan of the celebrated Persian lyric poet, Shams-al-Din Moḥammad Hafiz of Shiraz (about 715-792 AH/1315-1390 CE). The Şerh also includes Sudi’s recension of Hafiz’s Divan, as well as his paraphrases...