[IO Islamic 3465] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1264 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 3465 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1264

Another defective copy of the same.

Contents:

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

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 4a, beginning: سپیده دم که صبا بوی زلف جان گیرد (corresponding to the initial ḳaṣîdah in Boldeian Cat., No. 826, and Rosen, No. 66).

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 9b.

Ḳiṭ’as, mathnawîs, and a few rubâ’îs, on fol. 151b, beginning: سرور اهل عمايم الخ ; this part is incomplete and breaks off on fol. 162b. Some pages slightly injured.

No. 3465, olim 7. J. 9, ff. 162, 2 coll., each ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 71/2 in. by 4 in.