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Bibliotheca Indica A Collection of Oriental Works Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Curzon Collection Asiatic Society of Bengal

1926

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).1 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 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 Tirnurides of Herat..
language linguistics
Pages
612
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144822
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii Wladimar Ivanow view
Preface
xiii-xxviii Wladimar Ivanow view
I. History
1-24 Wladimar Ivanow view
II. Biography
25-92 Wladimar Ivanow view
III. Geography Cosmography Travels etc.
93-102 Wladimar Ivanow view
IV. Tales Legends Anecdotes
103-113 Wladimar Ivanow view
V. Epistolary Models Official Letters Specimens of Ornate Prose Rhetoric and Logogriphs
114-153 Wladimar Ivanow view
VI. Poetry
154-242 Wladimar Ivanow view
VII. Muhammadan Theology
243-279 Wladimar Ivanow view
VIII. Sufism
280-343 Wladimar Ivanow view
IX. The Sciences Mental Moral and Physical
344-445 Wladimar Ivanow view
X. Varia
446-459 Wladimar Ivanow view
Appendix
460-492 Wladimar Ivanow view
Indeces
493-580 Wladimar Ivanow view
Additions and Corrections
581-582 Wladimar Ivanow view
Backmatter
i-ii Wladimar Ivanow view

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