[IO Islamic 1413] بكاولى

<ul> <li><strong>Bak&acirc;wal&icirc;</strong><strong>.</strong></li> <li><strong>This manuscript is now IO Islamic 828&nbsp;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 1413 here with notations and hyperlinks].</strong></li> </ul> <p>828</p> <p>Bak&acirc;wal&icirc; (بكاولى).</p> <p>The story of prince T&acirc;j-almul&ucirc;k, Bak&acirc;wal&icirc; and her rose, translated from Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; into Persian by Shaikh &lsquo;Izzat-all&acirc;h Bang&acirc;l&icirc;, who had commenced this story in or before A.H. 1134 (A.D. 1722) at the request of a friend of his, Muḥammad, and completed it after the latter&rsquo;s sudden death (the first of Dh&ucirc;-alḥijjah, A.H. 1134=A.D. 1722, Sept. 12), obeying the earnest entreaty of some other friends, although he himself, in his first bitter grief, would have wished to do away with his work altogether.</p> <p>Two other copies of this story are described in W. Pertsch, Berlin Cat., p. 996, where the fuller title, قصّۀ گل بكاولى, is given, and the author&rsquo;s name appears as &lsquo;<em>In&acirc;yat-all&acirc;h Bang&acirc;l&icirc;</em>. This Persian version has again been translated into Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; by Nih&acirc;l Ćand, under the title of مذهب عشق (&lsquo;Gooli Bukawulee,&rsquo; Hindustani, by Nihal Chund, preface by J. Gilchrist, Calcutta, 1804, translated into French by Garcin de Tassy in the &lsquo;Revue d&rsquo;Orient,&rsquo; 1858), see W. Pertsch, loc. cit., and Zenker ii. 3920 sq. Another, still more modern, Hind&ucirc;st&acirc;n&icirc; adaptation of the same story is the گلزار نسيم, the rose-garden of Nas&icirc;m, in verse, composed A.H. 1254 (A.D. 1838), by Pandit Day&acirc; Shankar Nas&icirc;m, see A. Sprenger, Catal., p. 629.</p> <p>Beginning (different from that in the Berlin copy): گلزار هميشه بهار حمد و ثناى باغبان حقيقى را سزد كه اين طرفه بوستان جهان از انواع حسن الخ.</p> <p>No date. Worm-eaten.</p> <p>No, 1413, ff. 76, ll. 17; Nasta&rsquo;l&icirc;ḳ; size, 10^3/4 in. by 8 in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>