[IO Islamic 2305] ديوان حافظ

• Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1250 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 2305 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1250

The same.

Contents:

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

A few mathnawî-baits and a series of ḳiṭ’as, the latter beginning, on fol. 233^b: آصف عهد زمان الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 239^b, beginning: امشب زغمت ميان خون الخ (Brockhaus, No. 626).

Dated by Hidâyat-allâh at Multân the 5th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1147 (A.D. 1734, Dec. 31). College of Fort William, 1825.

No. 2305, ff. 245, 2 coll., each ll. 9; large Nasta’lîḳ, written on paper sprinkled with gold: illuminated frontispiece; the first two pages adorned with gold arabesques; size, 9^1/8 in. by 5^1/2 in.