Consise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Curzon Collection Asiatic Society of Bengal

Sprenger A Catalogue of the Arabic Persian and Hindustany Manuscripts of the Libraries of the King of Oudh vol. [...] The Government --no doubt favourably influenced by the then Viceroy Lord Curzon of Kedleston who took a warm interest in the scheme and wholheartedly supported it—sanctioned the necessary grants in the next year (1904).i The Council of the Society in honour of the memory of Lord Curzon has resolved to name the collection the " Curzon Colletion " in supersession of its previous informal d [...] The compilation of the present Catalogue was begun on the 1st July 1924 after the completion of the Catalogue of the older Persian collection of the Society.2 The working conditions have considerably improved and this circumstance has enabled the making of a closer study of every manuscript here described than was possible in the case of the work on the older collection. [...] With a view to uniformity a review of the present collection is here given on the same lines as in the Catalogue of the older Persian collection of the Society (pp. [...] 130) a rare collection of original documents belonging to the end of the dynasty of the Persian Timurides of Herat.