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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2769
Title:: Menoy i khrad in Persian
Scope & Content:: A Parsi-Persian version (ie in Persian but including passages in Middle-Persian language in Persian script) described as Kitāb-i Mīnū khirad (کئاب مینوخرد) of the Mēnōy ī khrad (‘Spirit of Wisdom’) originally composed in Pahlavi probably during the sixth century CE (f. 1v-75v)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: late 18th or early 19th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+79

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2777
Title:: Three Parsi masnavis
Scope & Content:: A volume containing three masnavis copied probably in the 18thor early 19th century by Kayqubād son of Rustam Contents: (1) Amshāsfand’nāmah (امشاسفند نامه) , a poetical version of an older prose-treatise which describes the functions and duties of the thirty-one Amesha spantas (ff. 1r-45v); pr...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. ii+127 (ff. 125-7 blank)

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2777, ff 1r-45v
Title:: Amshāsfand’nāmah امشاسفند نامه
Scope & Content:: Amshāsfand’nāmah (امشاسفند نامه) , a poetical version of an older prose-treatise which describes the functions and duties of the thirty-one Amesha spantas
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 1r-45v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2777, ff 110v-124r
Title:: Ḥikāyat-i Shāh Niẓām حکایت شاه نظام
Scope & Content:: Ḥikāyat-i Shāh Niẓām (حکایت شاه نظام), an account of the killing of several Dastūrs by order of Shāh Niẓām in the year 724 of the Yazdigird era (1355 AD)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: Ff. 110v-124r

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/96/1953
Title:: Introduction of inoculation in Trichinopoly District, and the extension of the practice throughout the Madras Presidency
Scope & Content:: Government of Madras award 500 pagodas to Surgeon James Richardson for his work in furthering the practice of inoculation in Trichinopoly, introduced several years prior by Nicol Mein. Order than an abstract report regarding inoculation be published in the vernacular languages and circulated. L...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Aug 1800-Feb 1801
Extent:: 110 pages

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/153/2613
Title:
Scope & Content:: Introduction in the Company's territories of the practice of vaccination against smallpox. Establishment of a vaccination hospital at Madras under the superintendence of William Horsman (includes statistics of patients).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Oct 1802-May 1803
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/169/2985
Title:: Measures taken to introduce smallpox vaccination in Bengal Presidency
Scope & Content:: Measures taken to introduce the practice of vaccination against smallpox in the Bengal Presidency. Cowpox to be introduced to Fort Marlborough [Bencoolen], Sumatra, by orphan children sent out from Bengal. Question of introducing vaccination to New South Wales and China.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jan 1803-Aug 1804
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/186/3906
Title:: Report on the state and progress of vaccine inoculation in Bengal during the year 1804
Scope & Content:: The Bengal Government forwards a copy of John Shoolbred's 'Report on the State and Progress of Vaccine Inoculation in Bengal during the year 1804' to the Court of Directors (includes a printed copy of the report).
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jul 1805
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/201/4544
Title:
Scope & Content:: Plan of Alexander MacKenzie for improving the system of vaccination in the Madras Presidency - he is appointed Superintendent of Vaccination.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jan 1805-Jul 1806
Extent:: 1 file

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