[IO Islamic 678] ديوان حافظ

• Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1257 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 678 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1257

The same.

Contents:

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

Ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 5^a, beginning:زدلبرى نتوان الخ.

Three mathnawîs, on fol. 10^b; the first beginning: .الا اى آهوى الخ

Some tarkîbbands and the usual mukhammas, on fol. 17^a.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 20^b.

ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 194^b, beginning as in No. 1250:

آصف عهد زمان الخ.

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 204^b, beginning as in No. 1250: امشب زغمت الخ.

No date. Some pages injured; various readings and additions on the margin.

No. 678, ff. 1-210, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ, the first two pages illuminated; size, 8^7/8 in. by 5^7/8 in.