[IO Islamic 3511] ديوان حافظ

• Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1263 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 3511 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1263

A defective copy of the same.

Contents:

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

Ḳiṭ’as and ta’rîkhs, on fol. 205^a, beginning:مسند نشين دولت جان شكوه شوكت الخ .

Three mathnawîs, on fol. 211^a; the first begins:الا اى آهوى الخ ; the second, on fol. 212^b: سر فتنه الخ ; the third, on fol. 213^b: مغنّى ملولم دو تارى بزن الخ ; it breaks off on fol. 214^b.

On the last fly-leaf the following remark: from Exhibition of 1851.

No. 3511, ff. 214, 2 coll., each ll. 12; clear and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece on fol. 1^b; neat arabesques with flowers at the end, and sometime even in the middle, of each ghazal, etc.; additional illuminations in gold, green, and other colours on ff. 23^b, 25^a, 44^b, 47^b, 52^b, and 65^a; some pages injured; pictures on ff. 3^b, 4^b, 6^a, 8^b, 11^a, 13^a, 14^a, 17^b, 24^a, 25^b, 29^a, 30^a, 33^b, 40^b, 45^a, 48^a, 49^b, 51^a, 53^a, 61^b, 65^b, 68^b, 76^b, 85^b, 87^b, 89^a, 101^a, 103^a, 110^a, 112^b, 114^a, 119^a, 121^a, 124^a, 127^b, 129^b, 136^b, 139^a, 141^a, 144^a, 154^a, 161^a, 163^b, 168^b, 171^a, 176^a, 180^a, 184^a, 188^b, 191^b, 193^b, 194^b, and 202^b; size, 7¼ in. by 4¼ in.