[IO Islamic 355] ديوان بيدل

Dîwân-i-Bîdil

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1678 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 355 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1678

Dîwân-i-Bîdil (ديوان بيدل).

Another collection of Mirzâ Bîdil’s lyrical poems, containing:

Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol.1b, beginning, as in Sprenger׳s copy and in the first of the Berlin collection:

باوج كبريا كز پهلوى عجزست راه اينجا

سر موى گر اينجا خم شوى بشكن كلاه اينجا

Rubâ’îs, likewise in alphabetical order, on fol. 192a.

Dated by Ghulâm Muḥyi-aldîn ibn Muḥammad ‘Abdallâh ibn Muḥammad Wajîh-aldin the 7th of Dhû-alḥijjâh, A.H. 1192 (A.D. 1778, Dec. 27).

No. 355, ff. 210, 2 coll., each ll. 19; careless Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta, the first leaves greatly injured; size, 11 in. by 6¼ in.