[IO Islamic 3464] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1256 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 3464 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1256

The same.

Contents:

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

Ḳaṣîdas and tarkîbbands, on fol. 5b, beginning:زدلبرى نتوان الخ (corresponding to the second ḳaṣîdah in No. 1246=Brockhaus, No. 692).

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 14b.

The usual mukhammas, on fol. 203a.

Ḳiṭ’as, mathnawîs, and rubâ’îs, on fol. 204b, beginning: دل منه الخ ; the first mathnawî, on fol. 216a, سر فتنه الخ ; the first rubâ’î , on fol. 223a, مردى زكنندۀ الخ.

No date. Some pages slightly injured, almost all soiled by water and partly effaced.

No. 3464, olim 7. J. 8, ff. 228, 2 coll., each ll. 14; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece on ff. 1b, 5b, and 14b; rather effaced pictures on ff. 53a, 95b, 147a, and 197b; small ornaments throughout; size, 8¼ in. by 4¼ in.