[IO Islamic 3480] ديوان بيدل
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<li>Dîwân-i-Bîdil</li>
<li>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1676 in the India Office collections.</li>
<li>[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 3480 here with notations and hyperlinks].</li>
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<p><span>Bîdil (Nos. 1676-1686).</span></p>
<p><span>1676</span></p>
<p><span>Dîwân-i-Bîdil (</span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان بيدل</span></span></span></span></span><span>). </span></p>
<p><span>The lyrical poems of Mirzâ </span><span><span>‘</span></span><span>Abd-al</span><span>ḳâdir Bîdil, the greatest of the Persian poets in India during the last century, who was born at Akbarâbâd A.H. 1054 (A.D. 1644), and died at Dihlî the 4th of Ṣ</span><span>afar, A.H. 1133 (A.D. 1720, Dec. 5), see Bodleian Cat., Nos. 1169 and 1170, and the Khulâ</span><span>ṣat-alkalâm, No. 11(ib., col. 296); Rieu ii. pp. 706 and 707; A. Sprenger, Catal., pp. 119, 213, and 378-380; W. Pertsch, p. 80, and Berlin Cat., pp. 938-941; Rosen, Persian MSS., p. 167. Only Garcin de Tassy, in his Histoire de la littér. Hindouie etc. i. p. 312 sq. (see also W. Pertsch, p. 80), fixes his death, four years later, in A. H. 1137 (A.D. 1724, 1725).</span></p>
<p><span>Besides his lyrical poems he composed several mathnawîs, viz. the </span><span><span><span><span><span>محيط اعظم</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(see below, Nos. 1682 and 1683); the </span><span><span><span><span><span>طلسم حيرت</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(Nos. 1684 and 1685); the </span><span><span><span><span><span>طور معرفت</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(No. 1686) ; </span><span><span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ل</span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>شت حقيقت</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 380); the </span><span><span><span><span><span>عرفان</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(Rieu ii. p. 707</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>); a mystical poem without title, dealing with love, the lover, and the beloved, in the metre </span><span> </span><span><span><span><span><span>رمل</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 940); and smaller poems of the same kind (see ib., p. 698, No. 20); also several important prose-works, for instance, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>بياض</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>or anthology of Persian poetry (Rieu ii. p. 737</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> sq.), the </span><span><span><span><span><span>نكات</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>or subtle thoughts (ib., p. 745</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> sq.), the </span><span><span><span><span><span>رقعات</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>or private letters (W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 147, No. 2; see also Rieu ii. p. 811</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>, and iii. pp. 1006</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> and 1068</span><sup><span>a</span></sup><span>), and the </span><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هار عنصر</span></span></span><span> </span></span></span><span>(A. Sprenger, Catal., p.119, l. 9). The present copy contains, according to the colophon, the </span><span><span><span><span><span>ديوان قديم مرزاى بيدل</span></span></span></span></span><span>, the old or first dîwân of the poet, with the following subdivisions:</span></p>
<p><span>Preface in prose, on fol. 1</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning: </span><span><span><span><span><span>حمد مبدعى كه تردّد انفاس هستئ موجودات تحريكيست الخ</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>Ghazals, in alphabetical order, on fol. 4</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>نفس آشفته ميدارد </span></span></span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>و </span></span></span><span><span><span>گ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ل جمعيّت مارا</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>ريشان مى نويسد كلك موج احوال دريارا</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span>A few ḳaṣîdas, on fol. 336</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p>
<p><span><span><span><span><span>در حريم خاك مارا موى </span></span></span><span><span><span>پ</span></span></span><span><span><span>يرى رهبر است الخ</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span>Rubâ</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îs, in alphabetical order, on fol. 343</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span>, beginning:</span></p>
<p><span><span><span>حمد دو جهان سزاست سبحانى را الخ</span></span></span></p>
<p><span>This copy was made by Khwâjah Bâbar Ḳalandar Ḳâdirî in Shâhjahânâbâd, at the request of Mirzâ Sa</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>îd, and finished the 15th of Dhû-al</span><span>ḳa</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>dah, A.H. 1106 (A.D. 1695, June 27), twenty-seven years before the poet</span><span><span>’</span></span><span>s death. Some pages injured; fol. 206</span><sup><span>b</span></sup><span> almost entirely effaced. This dîwân, together with the </span><span><span><span><span><span>نكات</span></span></span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span><span>, </span><span><span><span><span><span>رقعات</span></span></span></span></span><span>, and </span><span><span><span><span><span>چ</span></span></span><span><span><span>هار عنصر</span></span></span></span></span><span>, has been lithographed, A.H. 1287, at Lucknow, under the title </span><span><span><span><span><span>كلّيّات بيدل</span></span></span></span></span><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>No. 3480, olim 13. J. 26, ff. 358, 2 coll., each ll. 16; clear and distinct </span><span>Nasta’lîḳ; size, 9½ in. by 5 in.</span></p>
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