[IO Islamic 675] قصّۀ گل و صنوبر

<ul> <li><strong>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Gul u Ṣanaubar.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 819 in the India Office collections.</strong></li> <li><strong>[metadata:</strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hermann_Eth%C3%A9"><strong>Hermann Eth&eacute;</strong></a><strong><em>,&nbsp;</em></strong><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong><em>Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office,</em></strong>&nbsp;</a><a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1323681"><strong>2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1,</strong></a>&nbsp;<strong>number 675 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>819</p> <p>Ḳiṣṣa-i-Gul u Ṣanaubar ( قصّۀ گل و صنوبر).</p> <p>The story of Gul and Ṣanaubar (rose and pine tree) in Persian prose, beginning: راويان اخبار و ناقلان آثار چنين روايت كنند كه در خاور زمين پادشاهى بود كه آنرا سمن شاه نعلپوش مگويند الخ.</p> <p>See the same story, but in an apparently shorter version and with different beginning, noticed in Rieu ii. p. 764^b, found in a MS. written in the seventeenth century.</p> <p>A Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; adaptation of the same was published by Hid&acirc;yat &lsquo;Al&icirc; of Isl&acirc;m&acirc;b&acirc;d, 1847, at Calcutta, and translated into French by Garcin de Tassy, in ׳Revue orientale et americaine,׳ tom. vii, 1862, pp. 69-130; another Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; translation in verse was made by Aḥmad &lsquo;Al&icirc; of Sar&acirc;wah, comp. Garcin de Tassy, Histoire de la litt&eacute;r. Hindouie etc., 2nd ed., i. 157, and ibidem about the Dakhn&icirc; and Urd&ucirc;-Bang&acirc;l&icirc; translations of the same story; a third poetical translation into Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; by Nem Ćand was published at Calcutta, 1827, and at Lucknow, 1845.</p> <p>No. 675, ff. 54, ll. 13; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 8^3/8 in. by 5^3/8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>