Charters collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 646 charters.
Manuscripts collected by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 1st Duke of Buckingham (d 1839) at Stowe House, Bucks. c 1000-c 1800. 1085 manuscripts
Album of plans and elevations of the Taj Mahal and other buildings in Agra.
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Album of 25 plans and elevations of the Taj Mahal and other buildings in Agra laid down in an album, commissioned by Lady Nugent 1812. By Agra draughtsmen, 1812-15. The drawings are of varying sizes, some larger than the album page. The standard views are enclosed within thick and thin black ru...
Album of drawings of the Taj Mahal and other Mughal monuments of Agra, commissioned by Lady Nugent.
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By Agra draughtsmen, 1812-15. The drawings are of varying sizes, some larger than the album page. The standard views are enclosed within thick and thin black rules. The drawings of details unique to this album tend to run off the page without rules. Another feature unique to this album is th...
Hikayet-i arba'in subh u mesa - حكايت اربعين صبح و مسا
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This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation of the well-known tale entitled in Arabic Ḥikāyat arbaᶜīn ṣubḥ wa masāᵓ,by Aḥmad Maṣrī. The story is also commonly known as The Story of the Forty Viziers (Hikayet-i Kırk Vezir or Kırk Vezir Hikayesi). It is an expansion of an old Indian tale, ...
This scroll contains a nişan-i şerif transferring the timar (military fief) Szent Tamás in the district of Temesvár, from Kâtip Ali, on his resignation, to his son Mehmet. It is addressed to Yusuf, Beylerbey of Temesvár. The document contains a lavishly decorated tuğra of Sultan Murad IV in go...