ManuscriptsPersian16th century
Text (recto and verso), folio 76r from a Divan (collected works) of Hafiz, right-hand side of a bifolo.
c.1530
Dimensions
folio: 28.9 x 18 cm (11 3/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Provenance
Louis Cartier Collection, Paris (by 1958), sold; to Stuart Cary Welch, Jr., Warren, NH, 1958-1999), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums.
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