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Material associated with loans from the Society's collections between 2011-2014:

• Correspondence and documentation between the Asia Society, New York and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of Shahnamah of Firdausi (RAS Persian 239) for the exhibition, 'Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi'. Computer printed, 69 pieces, dated 23 November 2010-25 January 2011.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of Shahnamah of Firdausi (RAS Persian 239) for the exhibition, 'Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts'. This was a version of the exhibition held at the Asia Society. Typed and computer printed, 39 pieces, dated 8 December 2009 - 13 January 2012.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Diss Museum, Norfolk and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the bust and portrait of Thomas Manning (Head Cat. No. 02.003 and 01.006), including two condition reports by Bronwyn Leone on the portrait. The portrait does not seem to be included in the loan eventually. Typed and handwritten, 8 pieces, dated January to February 2011.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, State of Qatar, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of Shahnamah of Firdausi (RAS Persian 239) for the exhibition, 'Gifts of the Sultan: The Arts of Giving at the Islamic Courts', This was the final destination of this exhibition. Printed and computer printed, 12, pieces, dated 23 - 25 March 2012.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the usage rights for historical photos for display in the permanent Exhibition 'The Hong Kong Story' and further usage rights for a photo for the exhibition, 'Hong Kong Observatory - Under the Same Sky 130 years'. Typed and computer printed, 8 pieces, dated 20 June 2011 - 4 June 2013.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of material for the Institute's exhibition on the Arabian Nights. Typed, computer printed and handwritten, 17 pieces, dated 26 March 2012.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Fondazione Roma Arte Musei, Italy, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the Gulistan of Sa'di (RAS Persian 258) for the exhibition, 'Akbar, the Great Emperor of India'. Typed and computer printed, 31 pieces, dated 4 July 2011 - 25 May 2012.
• Correspondence between the Department of the Study of Religions, SOAS, London, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of material for the exhibition, 'The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in history and imagination', with condition reports on Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy's engraving (Head Cat No. 089.009) and Tarikh-i Bukhara (RAS Persian 159(1)). Typed and computer printed, 14 pieces, dated 29 February 2013.
• Correspondence from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, concerning the loan of manuscripts (RAS Persian 211, RAS Persian 239) and artworks (Head Cat. No. 051.001, 064.001) for the exhibition, 'A Score of Kingdoms' (later renamed to 'Kings & Pawns'), opening in March 2014. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 17 March 2013.
• Correspondence between the British Broadcasting Company and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the film about Iraq for use in the programme Dan Cruickshank and the Lost Cities of Iraq. Typed, 8 pieces, dated 21 May 2013 - 12 July 2013. Also Correspondence regarding secondary use. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 10 April 2017.
• Correspondence from the Museum of London concerning the renewal of the loan of the framed portrait of the Parsi shipbuilders (Head cat. no. 01.007-008) for one year for their 'Expanding City' gallery, with loan agreement, 3 pieces, dated 21 March 2013. The portrait had been on loan to the Museum since September 2009. Also included are two sets of Exhibition and Loan Condition Report of the portrait compiled by Jacobs Conservation and Preservation in 2013, with close-up images of the portrait, 23 pieces.

Material associated with loans from the Society's collections between 2001 and 2005:

• Correspondence on behalf of the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, the British Museum, London, and the Asia Society New York to the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of items to the exhibition, 'Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-76'. Typed, 10 pieces, dated 21 December 2000 - 27 June 2004.
• Acknowledgment of collection between Curzon Press and the Royal Asiatic Society for the copying and rebinding of a book. Typed, 1 piece, dated 28 June 2001.
• Correspondence between the Royal Academy of Music, London, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the possible loan of a photograph for an exhibition on the erhu family of instruments. Typed, 1 piece, dated 24 July 2001.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of photographs for the exhibition, 'Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation'. Typed and printed, 36 pieces, dated 20 June 2002 - 23 September 2004.
• Correspondence and documentation between the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of artworks for an exhibition. Typed and printed, 7 pieces, dated 17 March - 30 November 2004.
• Correspondence and documentation between Asia Society, New York, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of a manuscript and paintings for the exhibition, ‘Asian Games: The Art of Contest’. Typed and printed, 33 pieces, dated 20 September – 29 November 2004.
• Correspondence and documentation between Asia Society, New York, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of a folio of a manuscript for the exhibition, ‘The Arts of Kashmir’. Typed, 4 pieces, dated 13 October 2005 – 9 February 2006.

Material associated with loans from the Society's collections between 1991 and 2000.

• Correspondence between the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of manuscripts for a photographic exhibition of Indonesian manuscripts, 'Golden Letters' to tour major towns in Indonesia. Typed and printed, 22 pieces, dated 11 December 1990 - 28 April 1994.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Asia Society, New York, the British Library, the Kunsthal, Rotterdam and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning loan of material for the exhibition, 'The Court Arts of Indonesia' which first went to the Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, and then travelled to the Netherlands. Typed, printed and photographic, 36 pieces, dated 21 October 1988 - 14 August 1992.
• Letter from Frances Wood, Curator, British Library to Dennis Duncanson, Royal Asiatic Society concerning the possible loan of a Persian manuscript for an exhibition of oriental books and manuscripts illustrating gardens. Handwritten, 1 piece, dated 19 June 1992.
• Correspondence between the National Museum, Singapore, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the possible loan of Malay manuscripts for an exhibition to commemorate the 175th Anniversary of Sir Stamford Raffles landing in Singapore. Two pieces, typed, dated 12 October - 20 October 1992.
• Correspondence between the Musée de L'Homme, Paris, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the possible loan of a Persian manuscript for their exhibition about Herat, Afghanistan. Typed, six pieces, dated 20 September 1995 - 24 November 1995.
• Correspondence, documentation and publicity material between the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of artworks for the 'Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925' which opened in 1998. This exhibition then went to the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London and there is some material associated with that exhibition also. Typed and printed, 64 pieces, dated 29 June 1995 - 6 January 1999.
• Correspondence and documentation between the British Museum, Department of Coins and Medals, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the portrait of Alexander Cunningham for the exhibition, 'From Persepolis to the Punjab: Coins and the Exploration of the East'. Typed, printed and handwritten, 7 pieces, dated 27 March 1997 - 2 September 1977.
• Correspondence and documentation between the British Museum, Department of Ethnography, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of manuscripts for an exhibition on Sir Stamford Raffles. Typed and printed, 15 pieces, dated 3 September 1996 - 26 April 1999.
• Correspondence and documentation between the British Museum, the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of items for the 'Persian and Indian Paintings Exhibition from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections' held at the British Library, June - October 1998 to mark the 175th anniversary of the Society. Typed and printed, 35 pieces, dated 20 February - 26 October 1998.
• Correspondence between the Royal Armouries, Leeds, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan and care of a suit of armour belonging to the Society, Typed, 14 pieces, dated 27 May 1998 -27 September 2001.
• Correspondence and publicity material between the National Galleries of Scotland and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of 2 paintings for 'The Tiger and the Thistle: Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India, c.1760 -1800' Exhibition. Typed and photocopied, 9 pieces, dated 3 August 1998 - 24 August 1999.
• Correspondence regarding the possible loan of the VHS copy of the Northern Iraq film to be used in a Channel 4 series, 'Lost Worlds'. Typed and photocopied, 3 pieces, dated 13 January 1999.
• Correspondence between the American Museum of Natural History and the Royal Asiatic Society regarding the possible loan of a painting for the 'Body Art: Marks of Identity' Exhibition. Typed, 3 pieces, dated 23 February 1999.
• Correspondence and documentation between the Brecknock Museum and Art Gallery, Powys, Wales and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of manuscripts for their exhibition, 'Major David Price and the East India Company. Typed and printed, 15 pieces, dated 3 August 2000 - 4 April 2001.

Material associated with loans from the Society's collections between 1981 and 1990. These are:

• Correspondence and loan form between the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of manuscripts for the Library's 'The Art of the Book in India' April - August 1982. Four pieces, typed, printed and handwritten, dated 9 September 1981 - 2 April 1982.
• Correspondence between the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of James Wales' portrait of The Maratha Peshwa and Nana Fadnavis and Patrick Waugh's 'Jain Temple at Kumbhalmer' for the Museum's 'India Observed 1700-1860' as part of the Festival of India 1981 -1982. Seven pieces, typed, dated 20 July 1981 - 4 January 1982.
• Correspondence, loan forms and copies of newspaper articles between the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of paintings to the 'In the Image of Man' Exhibition to be held at the Hayward Gallery, March to June 1982. Typed and photocopied, 21 pieces, dated 5 October 1981 - 20 July 1982.
• Correspondence between the Centro Piementose di Studi sul Medio ed Estemo Oriente, Turin, Italy and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of two miniatures for the centre's 'Courtly Life in Rajasthan' Exhibition. Five pieces, typed, dated 12 September 1984 - 23 April 1985.
• Correspondence between the Asia Society, New York, the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of manuscripts for the 'Fatehpur Sikri and the Age of Akhbar' Exhibition to be held at the Asia Society Galleries and then at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 36 pieces, typed, printed and handwritten, dated 27 June 1984 - 1 April 1986.
• Correspondence and loan forms with the Centre for Asian Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the Society's Shahnama manuscript for the 'Timur and the Princely Vision' Exhibition to be held in 1989. Handwritten typed and printed, 68 pieces, dated 29 May 1986 - 11 December 1989.
• Correspondence between the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the Society's Masnavi manuscript for the 'Romance of the Taj Mahal' Exhibition, 1989. Typed and photocopied, 22 pieces, dated 14 August 1987 - October 1989.
• Correspondence from Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Israel, to the Royal Asiatic Society concerning possible loan of visual material concerned with Jews in Iraq before 1952. Typed, 3 pieces, dated 18 July - 15 November 1988.
• A letter from the Tyne and Wear Museums Service concerning the possible loan of Indian miniatures for a forthcoming exhibition at Shipley Art Gallery. Typed with handwritten annotations, dated 12 June 1989.
• Correspondence and publicity material between the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of Malay and Javanese manuscripts for the 'Paper and Gold: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Indonesian Archipelago, held July - October 1990. Typed, photocopied and printed, 17 pieces, dated 12 February 1990 - 19 October 1990.
• Correspondence and loan forms between the National Portrait Gallery, London and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of paintings for the exhibition, 'The Raj: India and the British 1600-1947'. Typed and printed, 22 pieces, dated 31 January 1990 - 23 April 1991.

Material associated with loans from the Society's collections between 1970 and 1980. These are:

• Correspondence between The British Council, the Royal Asiatic Society and Luzac & Company Ltd. concerning the loan of books for the Council's exhibition, 'British Books on the Arab World'. Seven pieces, typed, dated 17 December 1970 - 23 June 1971.
• Correspondence between A. Lodge, Librarian, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and Secretary of the South-East Asia Library Group, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the Society's Javanese and Balinese manuscripts to Dr. Theodore Pigeaud, Netherlands, for the purpose of cataloguing them. Four pieces, typed, dated 15 March 1971 - 22 June 1971.
• Correspondence between the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of manuscripts for their exhibition commemorating the 25th centenary of the Persian Empire. Seven pieces, typed and handwritten, dated 6 March 1972 - 5 May 1972.
• Correspondence between the India Office Library, London, and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the Society's manuscript, Rāmcaritmānas for an exhibition to be held the Conference Room of the India Office Library in conjunction with a conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Four pieces of correspondence, typed, dated 15 January 1974 - 30 January 1974. The exhibition booklet is also with this correspondence.
• Letter from C.B.F. Walker, British Museum, to John Hansman, Royal Asiatic Society, to return two letters from the Papers of Henry Creswicke Rawlinson which he had borrowed. Typed, one piece, dated 25 January 1974.
• Correspondence between R. Borger for the Göttingen Muncipal Museum and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning loan of material from the Papers of Henry Creswicke Rawlinson for an exhibition honouring the second centenary of G.F. Grotefend, decipherer of cuneiform. Typed, 10 pieces, dated 20 February 1975 - 29 April 1975.
• Correspondence between the British Museum and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan of the Society's 'Sa'di's Gulistan' manuscript for the museum's exhibition, 'Islamic painting in India'. Two pieces, typed, dated 28 October 1975 - 18 December 1975.

World of Islam Festival April- June 1976
In 1976 the World of Islam Festival was staged. The Society's main contribution was the loan of manuscripts to an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London for their exhibition, 'Arts of Islam'. However, alongside the administrative documents concerning the loans are other administrative documents, publicity material and newspaper articles:

• World of Islam Festival Trust Exhibitions Committee - amended Minutes of the First Meeting of 6 November 1973, 7 pieces, typed.
• Correspondence between the World of Islam Festival Trust, the Arts Council of Britain, the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the Society's participation in the Festival and in particular the loan of manuscripts to the exhibition. 15 pieces, typed, dated 18 September 1974 - 28 July 1976.
• Loan forms for the manuscripts lent to the Hayward Gallery. Printed forms with typewritten insertions and additional typed information, 7 pieces.
• Publicity and invitations for allied lectures and exhibitions to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, the Royal Festival Hall in conjunction with the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Cairo, an International Islamic Conference at the Royal Albert Hall, the British Institute of Persian Studies, the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, the British Institute in Eastern Africa, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the Royal Scottish Museum with the University of Edinburgh. 14 pieces, printed and typed.
• 'Islamic Council of Europe,' a printed leaflet explaining the objectives of the council.
• Two colour pamphlets advertising the festival. One is titled ' World of Islam Festival and the other is a copy of the Aramco world magazine, May -June 1976 dedicated to the Festival.
• Newspaper articles from The Times advertising and commenting on the Festival and wider issues connected to Islam in Britain. Printed, 6 articles, dated 21 March 1975 - 14 April 1976. Also photocopies of articles specifically commenting on the exhibition from The Times, Observer, The Illustrated London News, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Sunday Times, 10 April - May 1976.

1977-1980

• Letter from John Hansman, British Institute of Persian Studies, to Charles Beckingham, President, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the possible loan of archives and artworks for an exhibition to mark the official opening of the new British Institute of Persian Studies. Typed with handwritten annotations, 1 piece, dated 12 March 1977.
• Correspondence and loan form from the Scottish Arts Council for manuscripts lent by the Society to their Persian Miniature Paintings Exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival 1977. Printed and typed, 3 pieces, dated 1 -5 April 1977.
• Loan Agreement between Asia House Gallery, New York, and the Royal Asiatic Society for loan of the Chinese photographic album compiled by Mr Howell, 1 piece, dated 28 July 1977.
• Correspondence from the British Museum concerning the loan of the Society's Jami' al-Tawarikh manuscript for a temporary exhibition of Islamic paintings. Two pieces, typed, dated 30 June 1978 - 31 January 1979.
• Correspondence from the British Council regarding a loan of the Society's Journal to an exhibition touring in Europe. 1 piece, printed and typed, dated 4 January 1979.
• Correspondence between the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the loan, and necessary export licence required, of the Society's Persian manuscript to an exhibition at Asia House, New York. Typed, handwritten and photocopies, 12 pieces, dated 2 January 1979 - 10 February 1979.