A Divan of Hafiz, with illustrated double frontispiece and illuminated borders
MSS 719
Iran, Khurasan
mid-Sha‘ban 975 (mid-February 1568)
illuminated opening spread, headings, poem dividers and intercolumnar panels; variously coloured margins richly decorated in colours and gold throughout; modern binding
copied by Muhammad Husayn al-Husayni
218 folios, 33.5 x 20.5 cm
2 illustrations: folio 1b The right-hand page of the double-page frontispiece, showing a lady with two companions paiting attributable to Muhammadi 19 x 11.2 cm folio 2a The left-hand page of the frontispiece showing a richly dressed youth playing a stringed instrument (tar) signed by ‘Abdallah al-mudhahhib al-Shirazi 16.3 x 7.8 cm