Dîwân-i-Ḥâfiż. This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1254 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 2863 here with notations and hyperlinks]. 1254 The same. Contents: Muḥammad Gulandâm’s preface, on fol. 1b. Two ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 6b (with some lines left partly or wholly blank); beginning of the first, ثنا گویم الخ (see the preceding copy); the second, on fol. 8a, begins:مقدّرى كه از آثار صنع كرد اظهار الخ (corresponding to the beginning of the Calcutta edition of 1791). Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 9b. ḳiṭ’as, on fol. 195a, beginning: دل منه الخ. The same tarjî’band as in No. 1252, but beginning here, on fol. 205a:.اى باد بگو بدوستداری الخ The usual mukhammas, on fol. 207b. Five short mathnawîs, on fol. 209a; the first begins: بنشینم و با غم تو بازم – پنهان زتو با تو عشق سازم The second, on fol. 210b, is the usual one: الا اى آهوى الخ. Rubâ’îs, on fol. 219a, beginning:مردى زكنندۀ الخ. A few verses from the ساقى نامه, on fol. 227b. No date. Presented by Lieut.-Col. W. Kirkpatrick, May, 1804. No. 2863, ff. 228, 2 coll., each ll. 14; very large and distinct Nasta’lîḳ; a gorgeously illuminated frontispiece on fol. 9b; ff. 9b and 10a richly adorned; splendid Eastern binding, outside with flowers, inside with two large pictures, unfortunately severely injured on both sides; size, 133/8 in. by 83/8 in.