[IO Islamic 172] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1253 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 172 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1253

The same.

Contents:

Muḥammad Gulandâm’s preface, on fol. 1b, beginning:

حمد بيحدّ و ثناى بيعدّ الخ.

One ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 6b, beginning:.ثنا گویم خداوندی الخ.

One mathnawî, on fol. 8a (Brockhuas, No. 685, الا ای آهوى الخ); one mukhammas, on fol. 10a (Brockhaus, No. 693, در عشق الخ); and a second mathnawî, on fol. 11a, سَر فتنه الخ (see No. 1246 above).

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 16b.

Some ḳiṭ’as, on ff. 170b-179b.

A second ḳaṣîdah, on fol. 179b (Brockhaus, No. 692).

A tarjî’band, on fol. 180b, beginning as in No. 1246:ساقى اگرت الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 182b, beginning: مردی زكنندۀ الخ (see No. 1252).

Two small lacunas, on ff. 90b and 139a. Copied A.H. 1212 (A.D. 1797, 1798), In Iṣfahân, by ‘Alî Riḍâ, known as Mirzâ Bâbâ of Shîrâz, at the request of Ja’far ‘Alîkhân Bahâdur.

No. 172, ff. 188, 2 coll., each ll. 15; large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispieces on ff. 1b and 16b; ff. 1b, 2a, 16b, and 17a richly adorned; size, 113/8 in. by 67/8 in.