[IO Islamic 2387] ديوان حافظ

Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1247 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 2387 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1247

Another copy of the same.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1b, beginning: الا يا ايّها الخ.

One tarkîbband and one mukhammas (the latter = Brockhaus, No. 693), on fol. 186a.

Mathnawîs, on fol. 189a; the first beginning: الا اى آهوى الخ (Brockhaus, No. 685).

Muḳaṭṭa’ât, on fol. 194b, beginning:

فساد چرخ نه بینیم و نشنویم همی

که چشمها همه کورست و گوشها همه کر

A short mathnawî of ten baits, on fol. 202b, beginning:

هر كه آمد در جهان پر زشور

عاقبت می بایدش رفتن بگور

See fol. 19b in the preceding copy.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 203a, beginning: نه قصّۀ آن شمع چگل (چوگل) نئوان گفت الخ (Brockhaus, No. 633).

Dated by Muḥammad Ḥusain in the month Ramaḍân, of the 23rd year (of whose reign is not stated: it must be either Shâhjahân’s, A.H. 1059= A.H. 1649, Sept.- Oct., or ‘Âlamgir’s, A.H. 1091=A.D. 1680, Sept.-Oct.).

No. 2387, ff. 210, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ, by three different hands, the oldest on ff. 7-27, 68-79, 84, 85, and 90-210, the middle one on ff. 60-67, 80-83, and 86-89, the youngest on ff. 1-6 and 28-59; size, 81/8 in. by 5 in.