[IO Islamic 2397] ديوان بيدل

• Dîwân-i-Bîdil
• This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1680 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 2397 here with notations and hyperlinks].

1680

Short extracts from Bîdil’s dîwân.

A small collection of ghazals and rubâ’îs, the former arranged alphabetically. Beginning of the ghazals, on fol. 1^b:

بخيال چشم که الخ

Rubâ’îs, on fol. 27^b. No date. On fol. 31^b the seal of a former owner, Ḳâsim ‘Alî Mîrkhân, with the date, A.H. 1191 (A.D. 1777). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2397, ff. 1-31, 2 coll., each ll. 15; Nasta’lîḳ, mixed with Shikasta; size, 9¼ in. by 5 in.