Hafiz, Divan, Persian poetry, with 50 illustrations North India, probably Kashmir, late 18th/19th Century


Persian manuscript on paper, 250 leaves, incomplete at end, 13 lines to the page written in nasta'liq in black ink in two columns, inner margins ruled in gold, green, red and black, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, fifty illustrations throughout text in gouache and gold, seal impression of a certain Murad, brown leather with gilt boards in Safavid style depicting animals in a forest 162 x 98 mm.
|ProvenancePrivate US collection, 1960-present.The text begins with Hafiz's mathnavis followed by his ghazals.