Divan,

Hafez Shirazi (1315-1390 AD) is considered one of the greatest of the Persian Poets, whose immensely popular poetry continues to thrive in modern day Iran and far across the international sphere, with many translations of his texts available worldwide. This particular collection of his Divan is considered to be a compilation of all of Hafez' ghazals and although Hafez is believed to have been a popular poet in his lifetime, very few early manuscript copies of this text survive.

The colophon of this manuscript is signed by the scribe Muhammad Katib al-Sultani and although there appear to be no other manuscript records attributions scribe, their title 'sultani' strongly indicates that they were a working scribe in the Court of Ibrahim Sultan (Timurid Prince and Ruler of the Fars region 1415-1435). The stylistic attributions of this manuscript also strongly indicate manuscript production in the Shiraz region of Timurid Persia, the capital the Fars region during this period. Therefore, if this manuscript was indeed compiled during the reign of Ibrahim Sultan, who was a very avid collector of books and calligrapher in his own right, we can assume manuscript production between 1415 and 1435 AD. This places the manuscript within decades of the death of Hafez and makes it one of the earliest known copies of the text.