[IO Islamic 80] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1249 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 80 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1249

The same.

Contents:

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

The same short mathnawî of ten baits, as in Nos. 1246 and 1247 above, beginning, on fol. 186a: هر كه آمد در جهان الخ.

Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 186b, beginning: فساد چرخ الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 194a, beginning:

جز نقش تو ىر نظر نيايد مارا

جز كوى تو رهگذر نيايد مارا

See W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., No. 849, p. 488.

This copy was presented to Major Robert MacKenzie by William Shep. Greene, 1709.

No. 80, ff. 198, 2 coll., each ll. 12; excellent Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; ornaments throughout; size, 83/8 in. by 51/4 in.