[IO Islamic 3509] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1252 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 3509 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1252

The same.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning as usual.

Three ḳiṭ’as, the first of which, on fol. 154a, begins: دل منه بر دنيى الخ (see No. 1246).

One tarjî’band, on fol. 155a, beginning: اى داده بباد دوستدارى الخ (see Bodleian Cat., No. 816).

A mukhammas, on fol. 157a, last line, beginning as in Nos. 1246, 1247, and 1251.

Mathnawîs, on fol. 158b, the first beginning: الا اى آهوى الخ.

Rubâ’îs and fards, on fol. 168a, beginning:كاش حافظ الخ ; the second (which in many copies heads this part) corresponds to Brockhaus, No. 617, مردى زكنندۀ الخ.

Colophon on fol. 175a, giving the date of the copy as the first of Dhû-alḥijjah, A.H. 1198 (A.D. 1784, Oct. 16), and the name of the transcriber as Ghulâm Alî bin Muḥammad اروشى. On fol. 175b (the last page) the beginning of a ḳaṣîdah: در بدخشان لعل اگر الخ .

No. 3509, ff. 175, 2 coll., each ll. 16; small Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 4½ in. by 3 in.