[IO Islamic 480] ديوان بيدل

Dîwân-i-Bîdil

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1677 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 480 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1677

A less complete copy of the same.

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, with an incomplete series of rubâ’îs at the end.

Beginning of the ghazals, on fol. 1b, as in the preceding copy: نفس آشفته الخ.

Beginning of the rubâ’is, on fol. 251b:

اى دانه ازين مزرع انديشه برآ الخ

Corresponding to the second rubâ’î in the preceding copy (on fol. 343b). This part breaks off on fol. 264b; the last rubâ’î corresponds to fol. 357b, last line there.

No. 480, ff. 264, 2 coll., each ll. 17; small Nasta’lîḳ; size, 85/8 in. by 43/8 in.