Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d. 1390); verso: frontispiece; recto: inscription and seals

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Sultan Muhammad Nur (fl. as early as 1494)

• Artist

  Shaykhzade

• Description

  Detached folio from a bound copy of Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (F1932.45) with selections from the work of Ibn Yamin, Omar Khayyam, and Nizami in the margins; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; headings in white; recto: flyleaf with inscription and seals; verso: right-hand half of a double-page frontispiece with facing folio (1932.47); one column; 6 lines of text; one of a group of 9 detached folios (F1932.46-54) from the bound manuscript F1932.45; accessioned separately.

  Border: The illuminated frontispiece is set in cream-colored paper.

• Marks

  Bottom page: seals of Sultan Muhammad Qutb Shah.

• Inscriptions

  Flyleaf: "Divan of Hafiz with selections from the work of Ibn Yamin and quatrains by Khayyam and excerpts from the Khamsa of Nizami by the hand of Sultan Muhammad Nur Katib, unparalleled in his work."

• Provenance

  To 1931

  Claude Anet (1868-1931), Paris to 1931 [1]

  1932

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), acquired in Paris, March 21, 1932 [2]

  From 1932

  Freer Gallery of Art, puchased from Hagop Kevorkian in 1932 [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, folder sheet note.

  [2] See Hagop Kevorkian's letter to Mr. Lodge, dated March 25, 1932 Paris, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

  [3] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Falnama: The Book of Omens (October 24, 2009 to January 24, 2010)

  Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)

  Islamic Manuscript Illumination (January 23, 1984 to December 10, 1984)

  Art of the Court of Shah Tahmasp (December 16, 1979 to August 14, 1980)

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian and Near Eastern Art (May 5, 1933 to September 24, 1947)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Claude Anet (1868-1931)

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

• Origin

  Herat, Afghanistan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Name

  Anet, Claude, Kevorkian, Hagop

• Place

  Afghanistan, Herat

• Topic

  S?afavid dynasty, 1501-1736, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination, Poetry

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Language

  Nasta?li-q script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts