[IO Islamic 1840] كليد ديوان حافظ

• Kalîd-i-dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1273 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 1840 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1273

Another key to Ḥâfiż’ dîwân.

This little work is, like he preceding one, entitled at the beginning كليد خواجه حافظ, and in the colophon, on fol. 38^a, فرهنگ حضرت ديوان حافظ. It also consists of two parts, for although the colophon appears already at the end of the first part, there cannot be any doubt that the following alphabetical glossary belongs, as second part, to the same work. The author׳s name seems to be Nûr Muḥammad (see fol. 21^b: فقير حقير نور محمّد), who may be identical with Mîr Muḥammad Nûr-allâh Aḥrârî, the commentator of the mathnawî (see No. 1104 above). The first part contains, like the muḳaddimah of the preceding كليد, an explanation of mystical terms and phrases in twenty short bâbs, beginning, on fol. 21^b: حمد و ثناى مر حضرت الهى خالقى را كه الخ .

The second part, an alphabetical glossary for the difficult and rare words, especially the Arabic ones, which are found in Ḥâfiż’ poems, begins, on fol. 38^b:

افواه دهنها استعانت يارى خواستن الخ.

No date. Copied by the same Fakhr-aldîn.

No. 1840, ff. 21-48, ll. 13; very careless Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8^3/8 in. by 6 in.