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Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Urdu 10c
Title:: تفسیر سورہ رحمن Tafsīr i Sūrah Raḥmān
Scope & Content:: The Arabic text of the 55th Surah of the Qur'an, entitled al-Rahman, with an anonymous Hindustani paraphrase and notes. A short note on the revelation of of the Surah is prefixed, beginning: سبب اوترنے اس سوریکا یون کہتے ھین کہ جب پیغامبر اللہ علیہ و آلہ و سلم آکے کافرونکے نام رحمن کا لیتے تو ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 104-116 folios (12)

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Urdu 11
Title:: برو لامع Barq i lāmi'
Scope & Content:: A controversial Shi'a poem in Masnawi verse in reply to an anonymous Sunni Masnawi entitled Saif i qati. By Mirza Ja'far, Fasih. Begins: پس از حمد جی و قیوم پس از نعت رسول پاک و معصوم زبان خامہ ھوتی ھی کہربار رقم کرتا ھون مدح آل اطہار The author gives the text of the Saif i qati a few line...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 53 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Urdu 12a
Title:: اتالیق الصبیان Atālīq al-ṣibyān
Scope & Content:: A manual of instruction on Islamic religious observances. By Saiyid Salik Muhammad. Begins: الحمد اللہ رب العالمین و الصلوتہ و السلام علی رسولہ سید المرسلین و شفیع المذنبین و آلہ الطاھرین و خالفا الراشدین و اصحابہ اجمعین جان تو کہ نیک بخت کرے تجکو خدا تعالی بیچ دونو جہا ن کے The work is div...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: 105 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Urdu 13b
Title:: نصیحت المسلمین Naṣīḥat al-Muslimīn
Scope & Content:: A treatise against polytheism and infidelity by Maulavi Kurram 'Ali, Bilhauri. Begins: سجان اللہ کیا شان ھی تیری کہ بغیر مڈ دوسرے کی اتنے بڑے آسمان اور زمین کو کس خوب صورتی کے ساتھ پیدا کیا اور کسی نبی ولی کو اپنے کار خانے مین کچھ اختیار نہین دیا This work was written in A.H. 1238 (A.D. 1822...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1239
Extent:: 32 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Urdu 14
Title:: فضل بہار Faẓl i bahār
Scope & Content:: A treatise in verse on the principles of the Islamic faith and religious observances. By Saiyid Fazl 'Ali. Begins: پہل حمد ھی پاک خلاق کی کہ جن اپنی قدرت سے مخلوق کی وو صاحب فضل اور صاحب کرم نہین لکھ سکے وصف اوسکا قلم عجب اوسکا دریا ھی توحید کا کہ غواص کا وھان نہ پاوے پتا Fazl 'Ali belo...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1267
Extent:: 60 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: MSS Urdu 15
Title:: مایتہ المسائل Mi'at al-masā'il
Scope & Content:: Answers to 100 questions relating to the principles and observances of the Sunni creed given by Maulana Shaikh Muhammad Ishaq ibn Shaikh Muhammad Afzal Faruqi. Translated by Ahmad Allah ibn Dalil Allah, Siddiqi, in the year A.H. 1245 (A.D. 1829-30).
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1273
Extent:: 82 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Urdu B1
Title:: Disputations in Hindustani forming part of the examination at the College of Fort William: transferred to Oriental Mss: ref Mss Urdu B 1.
Scope & Content:: Disputations in Hindustani forming part of the examination at the College of Fort William: transferred to Oriental Mss: ref Mss Urdu B 1.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1805
Extent:: Unspecified

Reference (shelfmark):: Murray Coll
Title:: The Murray Collection
Scope & Content:: An international philatelic collection with special emphasis on China. Comprises mainly unused and used stamps with some blocks and covers beginning starting with the 1865 Large Dragon Issues and ending in the mid-1950s. Includes a copy of the China 1897 Revenue 2c on 3c surcharge double both inv...
Collection Area:: Philatelic Collections
Languages:: Chinese and English
Date Range:: 1865-1959
Extent:: 20 Volumes

Reference (shelfmark):: Music Deposit 1998/4
Title:: Benjamin Britten: 'On the Frontier', incidental music for the play by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
Scope & Content:: Duet from Act 3, scene 1.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1938
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Music Loan 49.1-28
Title:: RICHARD STRAUSS & ZOLTÁN KODÁLY: music manuscripts; 1880-1933
Scope & Content:: The Strauss manuscripts are autograph, the Kodály mostly copies. Dates below are taken from The New Grove Dictionary of Music ed. S. Sadie (London, 1980). Lent by Universal Edition (London) Ltd., 1961.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English, German, and Hungarian
Date Range:: 1880-1933
Extent:: 28 items

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