Series CAS/1 - Index Cards

36 boxes

As Storey compiled information for his biobibliographical works, he created an index card system. When these were transferred to the Society's collections they were still within their original filing cabinet drawers. The contents have been transferred to archival quality boxes but the order kept as they were found. The boxes are labelled:

• 1 - Astronomy unused, Almanacs unused, Biography/History, Medicine, Omissions added to Appendix II, Not used Misc. 2 Unclassified, Geography
• 2 - Mu'ammī used
• 3 - Encycloped & Miscell used, Natural Science, Alchemy Used, Mineralogy used, Suyāq, Fauvie-y [falcousif] used, Kabūtar-bāzī, Khwushnawīsī, Saif-būzī, Harb, Games used. Polytechnics used, Ātash- bāzī, Jild-sāzī, Hr-sāzī, Sibāghat, Jild-sāzī,, Khaiyātī, Siyādi-sāzī, Tirandāzī used, Tabbākhī used, Agriculture used, Mūsīqī used, Divination, Jafr, Quyāfah, [Raml], Ta'bīr, Fāl.
• 4 - no labels
• 5 - Sufism unused (this is subdivided by individual Sufi practitioners).
• 6 - Religion & unused Sufism, Prayers, Christianity, Hurūfism, Zoroastrianism (includes some subdivision of Sufi practitioners)
• 7 - Addition and corrections included in PLI/2 (Persian Literature: Biography, Additions and Corrections, Indexes).
• 8 - Used in PL II/1 (Persian Literature: A. Mathematics. B. Weights and Measures. C. Astronomy and Astrology. D. Geography), Maths, Astronomy-Astrology.
• 9 - Adab, Hadith, Ethics Philosophy, Prayers, Hinduism, and 10 (share the same box) Literature not used.
• 11 - Marawārid, Ni'mat Khān, Tugrā, Aurangzeb, Bē-dil, Mughī works, Adab, Philosophy unused, Tales unused, Gulistān, Logic used, Dharm-shāster (also labelled Mahabhārara, Rāmāyana prob should be used, Firmans Treaties Official Letters unused,, Bābism unused, Mahābhārata, Inshā not used, Nafīs b. 'Iwad Kirmānī,
• 12 - Used History & Hinduism
• 13 - Religion, Miscellaneous, Official Manuals, Statistics, Law, Administration, Coins, Tūpū, Ethics, Qābūs-nāmah, Sujāgat-Nāmah.
• 14 - Firdausi, Abū Said, 'Unsurī, Qatrān, Khaiyām, Ahmadi-Jām, Mas'ūd, Sanā'ī, Adīb Sābir, Qiwāmī, Zahīir, Khāqām, Nizāmī, Sharaf i Shufurwah, 'Attar, Rumi.
• 15 - Hādith, Ethics and Philosophy, Prayers, Hinduism.
• 16 - Tibb used (tibb is Arabic for medicine)
• 17 - Poetry used in files? (the box is further subdivided into individual poets).
• 18 - a large section unlabelled followed by Nash'at, Nāsir i Khusrau,Ni'mat Allāh Walī, Nizām al-D. Amliyā], Nizām al-Din Thānēsarī, Nūr i wahdat, Nūr Bakhsh, Nuzhart al-arwāh, Pārsā, al-Qūnawī Sadr al-Dīn, al-Qushairī, Rājū, Ra'ūf Ahmad, Rāzī (Fakhr al-D.), Ridā b. M. Kāzim, Rūmī (Ahmad), Sā'in al-Dīa Turkah, Sirhindī, Rūzbihēn al-Baqli, Sa'd al-D Hummū'ī , Shāh (Mullā), Shihāb al-D. b. Fath M, Simnāmī, Shamā'il i atqiyā', Sittah i darūrīyah, Sūfī, Sharīf, Sunāmī, al-Ta'arruf, Tāhir Nasrābādī, Thanā'Allāh Pānipatī, Tarab al-majālis, Taswiyah, Thānēsarī, al-Tuhfat al munsalah, Tūsī, Tūsī (Muhyī al-D.), Urfī, 'Uthmān (Shāh), Wajīh al-Dīn), Walī Allāh Dihlawī, Zubdat al-Haqāiq.
• 19 - PL II/3 Omissions List (Persian Literature: . F. Encyclopaedias and Miscellanies; G. Arts and Crafts; H. Science; J. Occult Arts _
• 20 - PL III Authors etc. A-H (Persian Literature III: Part 1 A. Lexicography. B. Grammar. C. Prosody and Poetics. Part 2 D. Rhetoric, Riddles and Chronograms. E. Ornate prose, Part 3 Proverbs: Tales).
• 21 - PL III Authors etc. I-M.
• 22 - PL III Authors etc. N-Z, Titles A-B
• 23 - PL III Titles C-Muna
• 24 - PL III Titles Muns-Z
• 25 - PL IV Authors etc. A-J (Persian Literature IV: Law; Tradition; Religion, Sufism, Baha’ism, Prayers; Hinduism; Translations from Sanskrit, Hindi, and other Indian Languages, Ethics; Philosophy; Logic)
• 26 - PL IV Authors etc. K-Q
• 27 - PL IV Authors etc. R-Z, Titles T-Z.
• 28 - PL IV Titles A-L
• 29 - PL IV Titles M-S
• 30 - Poetry used in files? (The box is subdivided by individual poets).
• 31 - Poetry used in files? (The box is subdivided by individual poets).
• 32 - Poetry used in files? (The box is subdivided by individual poets).
• 33 - Poetry used in files? + Poetry Miscellaneous (The box is subdivided by individual poets).
• 34 - Poetry unused? A-T (The box is subdivided by individual poets).
• 35 - Poetry unused U-Z plus further omissions (The box is subdivided by individual poets).
• 36 - Poetry Index to Files, Authors etc.
• 37 - Poetry Index to Files, Titles.

A few of these cards have been removed in the process of compiling Persian Literature and will be found in the sections for the Volumes.

• Arabic
• English
• Persian