Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez al-Shirazi (d. 1390)

Diwân - Poetic collection dated 868H, (=1467).

Persian manuscript of 190 leaves, calligraphed in black "nasta'liq" on fifteen lines per page spread over two columns. The manuscript opens with the preface attributed to Golandam, with a beautiful illuminated frontispiece, followed by the text on f. 5b with a second illuminated frontispiece, gilt titles, and ends with the dated and signed colophon enriched with illuminations. Three miniatures accompany the text, damaged and subsequently repainted. Several marginal annotations. (Wear). Bound in embossed brown morocco.

Iran, 1467

17 x 11 cm



Colophon: completed from copied on Monday the 15th of the month of Rabi al-Awal in the year 868H.



Hafez, Diwan, dated AH868 / 1467AD.

Persian Timurid manuscript on paper, 190ff, 15ll. in black nasta'liq to the page in two columns, with 3 miniatures, dated in the colophon.