Accession number
              MS M.15 
          Object title
              Dīvān (MS M.15).
          Display Date
              1537.
          Created
              Shīrāz, Iran, 1537.
          Binding
              Former binding: Trimmed on the top, bottom and edge next to the spine; recessed center panel has a stippled gold background and slightly raised golden cloud bands and flowers; recessed panels of vine rinceaux above and below the main field; a narrow braid and blind fillets used for the border; tan leather doublures with center scalloped medallions, pendants, and corners of small, black leather arabesque filigrane over slate-blue parchment; braid borders, fillets, and short tooth motifs surround the center medallions as well as the edges; flap is missing; binding has been preserved.
          Credit line
              Acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan.
          Description
              156 leaves (2 columns, 14 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 202 x 120 mm
          Provenance
              Dada Shaikh Naqshbandi al-Sayyid Muḥammad Rashīd (son of) Dada Muḥammad Kāmil; W.W. Meriam (note on fol. 156v dated "Philippopolis, Aug. '60"), presented the manuscript to Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Warren of Waltham, Massachussetts; John Bigelow, New York, ca. 1904; acquired by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) before 1913; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
          Notes
              Ms. poems of Ḥāfiẓ; written and illuminated probably in Shīrāz, Iran, 4 Rabʻ̄i II 944 (i.e., Nov. 11, 1537).
On fol. 1r is an inscription in Armenian script but in the Turkish language identifying the work; fol. 155v contains Turkish poetry--Cf. Schmitz.
Decoration: 3 miniatures and a double-page frontispiece; text is in black nastaʻlīq and the headings are in gold and blue tawqī (linked script).
          On fol. 1r is an inscription in Armenian script but in the Turkish language identifying the work; fol. 155v contains Turkish poetry--Cf. Schmitz.
Decoration: 3 miniatures and a double-page frontispiece; text is in black nastaʻlīq and the headings are in gold and blue tawqī (linked script).
Script
              nastaʻlīq and tawqīʻ
          Language
              Persian
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