Manuscript/Mixed Material Ruba'is by Hafiz

Title

• Ruba'is by Hafiz

Created / Published

• 16th-17th centuries

Headings

• -  Calligraphy, Arabic
• -  Calligraphy, Persian
• -  Manuscripts, Persian--Washington (D.C.)
• -  Iran
• -  Arabic script calligraphy
• -  Illuminated Islamic manuscripts
• -  Islamic calligraphy
• -  Islamic manuscripts
• -  Nasta'liq

Notes

• -  Quatrains by the Persian poet Hafiz (d. 791/1388-9), written in the black Nasta'liq script during the 16th- or 17th-centuries, in Iran.
• -  (Bad deeds) have a very strange adjective / This bizarre Satan that eats people / Most people are cannibals / You are not safe when they greet you
• -  Another quatrain by the Persian poet Hafiz (d. 791/1388-9) is inscribed in vertical panels, the last two verses of which appear on a background painted with gold leaves. This quatrain describes respect owed to one's superiors:
• -  Dil sara parda-yi muhabbat-i tu-st / Dida ayina dar-i tal'at-i tu-st / Man ka sar dar nayavaram bi-du kawm / Gardanam zir-i bar-i minnat-i tu-st
• -  Dimensions of Written Surface: 15 (w) x 25 (h) cm
• -  My heart is in your house of love / (My) eye is the mirror that reflects your brilliance / I, who do not prostrate to the two worlds, / My neck is under the weight of your favor
• -  The fragment is neither dated nor signed. However, it appears to have been produced in 16th- or 17th-century Iran and placed later into an album (muraqqa') of calligraphies.
• -  The verses are executed in black nasta'liq script in independent registers on a background decorated with illuminated triangular and rectangular panels. The entirety of the text panel is pasted to a larger sheet of beige paper decorated with light blue vegetal motifs.
• -  This calligraphic fragment includes three iambic pentameter quatrains, or ruba'is, arranged in corresponding vertical and horizontal panels. The verses written diagonally in the upper right corner describe humans' duplicity:
• -  Yak sifat-i 'ajab amad in ammara-ra / Bu al-'ajab ifrit-i mardum khwara-ra / Adami khwarand aghlab marduman / Az salam 'alaykashan kam ju aman
• -  Script: nasta'liq
• -  1-88-154.35

Medium

• 1 volume ; 28 (w) x 40.1 (h) cm

Repository

• Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.amed/ascs.210

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2019714677

Online Format

• pdf
• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2019714677

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