[IO Islamic 3511] ديوان حافظ

<ul> <li><strong>D&icirc;w&acirc;n-i-Ḥ&acirc;fiż.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1263&nbsp;in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 3511 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>1263</p> <p>A defective copy of the same.</p> <p>Contents:</p> <p>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 1^b.</p> <p>Ḳiṭ&rsquo;as and ta&rsquo;r&icirc;khs, on fol. 205^a, beginning:مسند نشين دولت جان شكوه شوكت الخ .</p> <p>Three mathnaw&icirc;s, 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.</p> <p>On the last fly-leaf the following remark: from Exhibition of 1851.</p> <p>No. 3511, ff. 214, 2 coll., each ll. 12; clear and distinct Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; 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, 7&frac14; in. by 4&frac14; in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>