A page from Collection of poems (divan)
Manuscript page: fol. 27b · Walters Art Museum

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Collection of poems (divan)

Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.

First half of the 11th century AH / 17th CE

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This is an illuminated and illustrated copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiz al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE), written in the first half of the eleventh century AH / seventeenth CE. There are five illustrations.

Place of origin
Iran
Language
The primary language in this manuscript is Persian.

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Source ID: W.638

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