'The Looted Paradise': unpublished biography, dated 1998, by Keith Haines of (William) Arthur Moore (1880-1962), journalist, assistant editor 1924, and editor 1933-42, of the 'Statesman', Calcutta.
Diaries of John Russell Colvin, Bengal Civil Service 1826-27; also a few papers and a memoir of Sir Elliot Colvin, Indian Civil Service 1883-1918
Scope & Content:
Colvin Collection: diaries of John Russell Colvin (1807-57), Bengal Civil Service 1826-57; Private Secretary to Governor- General of India Lord Auckland 1836-42; Lieutenant-Governor of North-Western Provinces 1853-57; containing notes on official business, personal reading, and general political ...
Printed sheet covering the Ottoman Empire as far south as Damascus and Baghdad. Includes all, or at least significant parts, of present-day Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria. Portrays hydrology, railways, settlements, place names, and internati...
This volume contains the following two Divans : ff 1v-40r : Divan-i Niyazi-yi Mısri, the collected poetry of Şeyh Mehmet Niyazi (died 1105 AH/1693-94 CE). The poems consist of gazeller in alphabetical order, some of which bear the mahlas of Mısri as well as Niyazi; ff 41v-87v : Kadı Divani, t...
This volume contains the following three texts, all of which are marked as surat or copy: (I) ff 1v-3v : Devlet-i aliye Sırp Hukumeti beyninde akt olacak ticaret mukayide (?)namesi tercümesidir, the text of a trade agreement between the Ottoman court and the Serbian authorities, divided into 1...
Majmūʾah Two texts: ff. 1v-31r: Awrād Shādhliyah A compilation of litanies (awrād) of the Shadhili Sufi Order. This manuscript illustrates the spread of the Shādhiliyah into ottoman Bularia, and also contains illuminated headings and colophons in regional style on ff. 1v, 2r, 25v, 31v, 34v, ...
