File EWW/1/77 - Excerpts and summaries from various sources relating to Oriental scholars, Persian MSS, Astronomy

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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/77

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Excerpts and summaries from various sources relating to Oriental scholars, Persian MSS, Astronomy

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  • [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

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1 notebook

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Description: Small black leather softcover notebook with ruled white pages. Multiple inserts.
Contents: Excerpts and summaries from various sources relating to Oriental scholars, Persian MSS, astronomy, (e.g. Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society Col 54 [1885] Part 1, pp. 140-2, Chronology of Ancient Nations by Albiruni, Tarikh-I Tabaristan by Muhammad ibn ul-Hasan", Oriental Memoirs by James Forbes, ; ; "Dr. John Fryer's Travels", Indian Gazetteer)
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  • Folios with title and citation of articles relating to Zoroastrian Studies
  • folio with list of books titled "India. Descriptive Works and Travels (old)
  • Reading room request forms
  • scraps of paper with "1865 Transit of first point of Aries", directions to some place in Piccadilly, book title "Corpus papyrorum Raineri archiducis Austrioe", containing titles for Ancient British History, transcriptions from fragments of the Persian MSS
  • Folios with notes regarding Raja Prithviraj, titled "Early Traces of Pahlavi"

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  • English
  • French

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