Collection of poems (divan), Incipit page with illuminated headpiece, This manuscript is an illuminated copy of the Collection of poems (dīvān) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ al-Shīrāzī (fl. eighth century AH / fourteenth CE). Written in Safavid Iran in the tenth century AH / sixteenth CE in black nastaʿlīq script, the codex opens with a double-page illuminated frontispiece that precedes a preface (dībāchah). An illuminated headpiece inscribed fa-Llāh khayr ḥāfiẓan or 'God is the best protector' (Sūrat Yūsuf, 12:64) introduces the initial verses of the Dīvān

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