[IO Islamic 3356] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1251 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 3356 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1251

The same.

Contents:

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

A few ḳaṣîdas, mathnawîs, and tarkîbbands, on fol. 141b, beginning as in No. 1246: جوزاى سحر نهاده الخ .

A mukhammas, on fol. 153a, beginning as in Nos. 1246 and 1247: در عشق تو اى صنم الخ.

Muḳaṭṭa’ât and rubâ’îs, on fol. 154a, beginning:

اى دل مجوى منصب دنيا كه هيچ نيست الخ.

Dated the 17th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1184 (A.D. 1770, Dec. 6), by ‘Ażîm-aldîn.

No. 3356, olim 7.J. 10, ff. 162, 2 coll., each ll. 19; Nasta’lîḳ, the first page supplied later by another hand; size, 8¾ in. by 5 in.