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Or 14139
- Record Id:
- 032-002793836
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002793836
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023493261.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 14139
- Title:
- Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān
- Scope & Content:
-
Collected poems of Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī (d. 792/1389), copied at Herat or Mashhad ca. 1470 by, according to Shah Jahan’s note of 1037/1628 (f. 1r), the famous calligrapher Sulṭān ʻAlī Mashhadī. The whole work was refurbished and remargined at the Mughal court ca. 1605 with cartouches containing images of animals, birds, musicians, workmen, soldiers etc. Final verse and supposed colophon pasted over (f. 117v)
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002793836", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Or 14139: Ḥāfiẓ, Dīvān" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002793836
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002793836
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
117 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14139 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Persian
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1470
- End Date:
- 1470
- Date Range:
- 1470
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Material: Paper.Dimensions [leaf]: 250 x 180 mm
- Custodial History:
- Apparently acquired by the then (1983) Marquess's grandfather in Delhi during the Coronation Durbar of 1911. Formerly belonged to the Mughal Emperor Akbar (note dated 1603 on f 117v), and remained in the Mughal library for several generations. Includes signed notes by Jahangir and Shah Jahan (f.1v)
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from the Marquess of Bute, January 1983.
- Publications:
-
M. I. Waley, Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London, 1998, p. 40
J.P. Losty, “The ‘Bute Hafiz’ and the development of border decoration in the manuscript studio of the Mughals”, The Burlington Magazine 127 no. 993 (Dec. 1985), pp. 855-56; 858-71 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)