IDENTIFIERS
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id:	239398
accession number:	MS 344

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Friday 15 November 2019
updated:	Thursday 6 March 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Previously identified as a Divan of Hafez.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper, 105 folios, 2 columns, 14 lines to a page.

Contents:
Collection of poems: Naziri Nishapuri’s Divan Asha’ar. 

Painted decoration
There are 9 paintings as follows: 
Fol. 3r: The Prophet Muhammad carried through the clouds by Buraq. 
Fol. 11v: A young prince enthroned in pavilion. 
Fol. 16v: A prince holding a court in a garden. 
Fol. 22v: The Ka’ba in Mecca. 
Fol. 31r: A prince enthroned holding a court while two men kneel in front of the executioner. 
Fol. 41r: Men stand in a group and look at three birds flying in the sky with their beaks linked by a rod. 
Fol. 71r: Hunting scene, one horseman is attacked by a lion. 
Fol. 86v: Prince and lady in a garden, three men watch. 
Fol. 101r: A voyage over a black sea in a sailing ship with a horse-head prow and a small boat. 

Ornamentation 
The text is framed by rules of blue, gold, black and green. Decorative heading in gold and colours on folio 1v.

Inscriptions
There are single words noted on the margins, like on folio 14v, 18v, 25r, 43v, 44r, 60r and others.
title:	Divan of Naziri Nishapuri

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Manuscripts and Printed Books
creditline: Given by Alfred A. de Pass, 1933, in memory of his son, Crispin, of Trinity Hall, who fell in WWI in 1918.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/239398





TECHNIQUES
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watercolour
TECHNIQUES
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illumination
TECHNIQUES
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calligraphy

CATEGORIES
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category: illuminated manuscript
category: manuscript

DATING
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creation date:	1571 - 1571
creation date earliest:	1571
creation date latest:	1571
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown