[IO Islamic 3387] ديوان بيدل

Dîwân-i-Bîdil

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1679 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 3387 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1679

The same.

A third collection of Bîdil’s lyrical poems, a kind of abridgement, in which the ghazals are much shorter than in the preceding ones and often mere fragments of the original poems, beginning:

اى مردۀ تكلّف از كيف و كم برون آ الخ

Rubâ’îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 149a, beginning:

گردون در خاك اگر نشاند مارا الخ

Corresponding to the second in the preceding copy, and the sixth in No. 1677. At the end the fragment of ḳaṣîdah.

Dated the 6th of Rajab in the thirteenth year of Muḥammadshâh’s reign=A.H. 1144 (A.D. 1732, Jan. 4).

No. 3387, olim 13. J. 25, ff. 163, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ; size, 8 in. by 4½ in.