[IO Islamic 2863] ديوان حافظ

• Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1254 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 2863 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1254

The same.

Contents:

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

Two ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 6^b (with some lines left partly or wholly blank); beginning of the first, ثنا گویم الخ (see the preceding copy); the second, on fol. 8^a, begins:مقدّرى كه از آثار صنع كرد اظهار الخ (corresponding to the beginning of the Calcutta edition of 1791).

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

ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 195^a, beginning: دل منه الخ.

The same tarjî’band as in No. 1252, but beginning here, on fol. 205^a:.اى باد بگو بدوستداری الخ

The usual mukhammas, on fol. 207^b.

Five short mathnawîs, on fol. 209^a; the first begins:

بنشینم و با غم تو بازم – پنهان زتو با تو عشق سازم

The second, on fol. 210^b, is the usual one: الا اى آهوى الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 219^a, beginning:مردى زكنندۀ الخ.

A few verses from the ساقى نامه, on fol. 227^b.

No date. Presented by Lieut.-Col. W. Kirkpatrick, May, 1804.

No. 2863, ff. 228, 2 coll., each ll. 14; very large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; a gorgeously illuminated frontispiece on fol. 9^b; ff. 9^b and 10^a richly adorned; splendid Eastern binding, outside with flowers, inside with two large pictures, unfortunately severely injured on both sides; size, 13^3/8 in. by 8^3/8 in.