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

Sprenger A Catalogue of the Arabic Persian and Hiudustany 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).' 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 des [...] 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 workino. [...] With a view to uniformity a review of the present collection is hero given on the same lines as in the Catalogue of the older Persian collection of the Society (pp. [...] 130) a rare collection of original floeumenis hi longing to the (.1n1 of the dynasty of the Persian Ciminides of Herat.