[IO Islamic 2826] ديوان حافظ

• Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1259 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 2826 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1259

The same.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1^b.

A few mathnawîs, on fol. 204^b, the first begins: الا اى آهوى الخ ; the second, a ساقى نامه, begins, on fol. 206^a, as the first mathnawî in No. 1246: بيا ساقى آن مى الخ.

Parts of ff. 207^b and 208 are left blank.

ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 209^a, beginning: زمانه گر گهر پاک الخ (=Brockhaus, No. 580).

A few rubâ’îs, on fol. 212^a, followed on fol. 214^a by a short account of Ḥâfiż. On ff. 215^a-217^b a tract on the various metres of epic poems, illustrated by those of Sanâ’î, Niżâmî, Khusrau, etc. (see a similar tract at the beginning of the autograph of Jâmî’s Kulliyyât in Rosen, Persian MSS., pp. 216-218).

On fol. 218^a some scattered poetry. Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2826, ff. 218, 2 coll., each ll. 13; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 6^3/8 in. by 4^1/2 in.