[IO Islamic 3358] ديوان حافظ

• Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż.
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1265 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 3358 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1265

A third defective copy of the same.

Contents:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1^b. There is a lacuna of three leaves after fol. 2.

Four unalphabetical ghazals, on ff. 151^b-153^a.

The usual mukhammas, on fol. 153^a.

Mathnawîs, ḳiṭ’as, and rubâ’îs, on fol. 154^a, beginning:

الا اى آهوى الخ .

Ff. 24 and 25 are misplaced and must be inserted after fol.117.

No date. A few various readings and additions on the margin.

No. 3358, olim 7. J. 15, ff. 1-171, 2 coll., each ll. 16; Nasta’lîḳ; illuminated frontispiece; size, 8^3/4 in. by 4^3/4 in.