[IO Islamic 3358] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1265 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 3358 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1265 A third defective copy of the same. Contents: Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b. There is a lacuna of three leaves after fol. 2. Four unalphabetical ghazals, on ff. 151b-153a. The usual mukhammas, on fol. 153a. Mathnawîs, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs, on fol. 154a, beginning: الا اى آهوى الخ . Ff. 24 and 25 are misplaced and must be inserted after fol.117. No date. A few various readings and additions on the margin. No. 3358, olim 7. J. 15, ff. 1-171, 2 coll., each ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 83/4 in. by 43/4 in.