[IO Islamic 3509] ديوان حافظ

<strong>Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.</strong> <strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1252 in the India Office collections.</strong> <strong>[metadata:</strong> <strong>Hermann Ethé</strong><strong><em>, </em></strong><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong> <strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong> <strong>number 3509 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong> 1252 The same. Contents: Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1^b, beginning as usual. Three ḳiṭ’as, the first of which, on fol. 154^a, begins: دل منه بر دنيى الخ (see No. 1246). One tarjî’band, on fol. 155^a, beginning: اى داده بباد دوستدارى الخ (see Bodleian Cat., No. 816). A mukhammas, on fol. 157^a, last line, beginning as in Nos. 1246, 1247, and 1251. Mathnawîs, on fol. 158^b, the first beginning: الا اى آهوى الخ. Rubâ’îs and fards, on fol. 168^a, beginning:كاش حافظ الخ ; the second (which in many copies heads this part) corresponds to Brockhaus, No. 617, مردى زكنندۀ الخ. Colophon on fol. 175^a, 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. 175^b (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. <br>