Collection of poems (divan), Illuminated incipit page with headpiece, This manuscript 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). The text was written in nastaʿlīq script in black ink on buff and rose-tinted laid paper in Shawwāl 958 AH / 1552 CE. The codex contains four illustrations. The dark brown goatskin binding with central medallion and pendants panel-stamped in relief is original to the manuscript

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