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Folio (text, recto and verso) preceding the illustrated folio depicting "Lovers' Picnic", from a manuscript of the Divan (Collected Works) of Hafiz

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This folio precedes the folio illustrating the well-known painting (see 2007.183.2) which features a pair of courtly lovers in a spring garden. The painting appears on what was once folio 66 recto of a famous manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz. Because the name of Sam Mirza (b. 1517), brother to the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp, appears on one of the now dispersed paintings, it is posited that the prince was the patron of the manuscript.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art Arthur Sambon Paris (by 1912). Louis Cartier Collection Paris (by 1931-1958) sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Cary Welch Jr. Warner NH (1958-2007) gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Stuart Cary Welch in honor of Edith Iselin Gilbert Welch
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Title: Folio (text, recto and verso) preceding the illustrated folio depicting "Lovers' Picnic", from a manuscript of the Divan (Collected Works) of Hafiz
Description:
This folio precedes the folio illustrating the well-known painting (see 2007.
183.
2) which features a pair of courtly lovers in a spring garden.
The painting appears on what was once folio 66 recto of a famous manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz.
Because the name of Sam Mirza (b.
1517), brother to the Safavid ruler Shah Tahmasp, appears on one of the now dispersed paintings, it is posited that the prince was the patron of the manuscript.

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