[IO Islamic 3511] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1263 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 3511 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1263

A defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b.

Ḳiṭ’as and ta’rîkhs, on fol. 205a, beginning:مسند نشين دولت جان شكوه شوكت الخ .

Three mathnawîs, on fol. 211a; the first begins:الا اى آهوى الخ ; the second, on fol. 212b: سر فتنه الخ ; the third, on fol. 213b: مغنّى ملولم دو تارى بزن الخ ; it breaks off on fol. 214b.

On the last fly-leaf the following remark: from Exhibition of 1851.

No. 3511, ff. 214, 2 coll., each ll. 12; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1b; neat arabesques with flowers at the end, and sometime even in the middle, of each ghazal, etc.; additional illuminations in gold, green, and other colours on ff. 23b, 25a, 44b, 47b, 52b, and 65a; some pages injured; pictures on ff. 3b, 4b, 6a, 8b, 11a, 13a, 14a, 17b, 24a, 25b, 29a, 30a, 33b, 40b, 45a, 48a, 49b, 51a, 53a, 61b, 65b, 68b, 76b, 85b, 87b, 89a, 101a, 103a, 110a, 112b, 114a, 119a, 121a, 124a, 127b, 129b, 136b, 139a, 141a, 144a, 154a, 161a, 163b, 168b, 171a, 176a, 180a, 184a, 188b, 191b, 193b, 194b, and 202b; size, 7¼ in. by 4¼ in.