Folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz (d.1390); recto: text; verso: Layla and Majnun at school

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a Divan (collected poems) by Hafiz; painting from a dispersed copy of Khamsa (Quintet) by Nizami, Layla and Majnun at school; text: Persian in black nasta'liq script; recto: text, two columns, thirteen lines; verso: illustration and text, Layla and Majnun at school; one of a group of two folios.

  Border: the text is set in red, gold and black rulings on a paper with landscape and animal motifs; the painting (from a Khamsa) is placed over the text panel (from a Divan) on a paper with stenciled floral motifs.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Origin

  Probably Shiraz, Iran

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1400s

• Place

  Shiraz

• Topic

  Reading, Art, Turkmen period (1378 - 1508), Aq Qoyunlu dynasty (1378 - 1501), Henri Vever collection, Layla, Writing, Arts of the Islamic World, Majnun, Schools, Educators, Teaching

• Culture

  Muslims, Iranians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts