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Phari Zung
GB 891 FM-FM/8-FM/8/2 · File · [1938-1979]
Part of Papers of Fleming Mackenzie

Phari Zung by Fleming Mackenzie. Print of a pen and ink drawing.

Mackenzie Fleming
GB 891 SC29-SC29/1 · Series · 1742 - 1874
Part of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Documents of Maratha History

Documents of the Maratha Peshwa Court given to John Briggs by the widow of Nana Fadnavis. This includes original correspondence to Madhu Rao and Nana Fadnavis. The letters commence with the public life of Nana Fadnavis in 1761 and end with his fall in power in 1796 and are associated with the reign of Madhu Rao.

Briggs John 1785-1875
Personal Notebooks
GB 891 QW-QW/2 · Series · 1928 - 1965
Part of Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales

These notebooks cover selected books by Quaritch Wales and other authors. They contain:

  • Notes on selected books
  • Notes on selected books and Indian History
  • Notes on newspaper articles
  • Notes on The Indianization of China and South-East Asia
  • Notes on Hindi
  • Notes on various books
  • Notes on PROMACHAT (Divination)
Wales Horace Geoffrey Quaritch 1900-1981 Archaeologist
Personal Correspondence
GB 891 DD-DD/6 · Series · 1973 - 1976
Part of Papers of Dennis Duncanson

Personal correspondence between Duncanson and others including; Nguyen Van Anh, Jacky K.T. Tran, Nguyến Thế Anh and Paul Ngô-Trọng-Hiếu. Much concerns the formation of the Can Lao party.

Duncanson Dennis J.
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/5 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Green, blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook with blue pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string a, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 5 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

  • Persian Texts from Munich and Oxford including Dadar I Dadduxt
  • "Contractions common in Persian MSS."
  • Chods-Viraf namah from H28
  • The five kinds of marriage and Ahriman's advice to aeshan from H5 Rivayat on yatha-ahu-vairyo, 101 names of god, the will of God and the devil, degrees of sin & good, the tomb of Chosherevan, meaning of some Z. prayers from L8
  • Description of the 21 hasks, printed from P13
  • Verse introduction and post-script to Sad-Dar Mazam, printed by Hyde
  • Vocabulary of Pahlavi & Pazand words from O121 & O225
  • Anushrvron's ascension to the throne, Sayings & doing of Anoshirevan, beginning of the tomb of Anoshirevan, from O225
  • Indir namah from O30
  • Parsi cosmogong, Definition of Sins, from O40
  • Saugond namah, Rivayat on miscellaneous subjects from Lb8894

Inserts:

  • "Risalah-i Mimi-khirad-i digar"
  • "Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroaste, extraits de MSS. Persans de la Bibl. du Roi par Olhausen et Jules Mohl." [Trans. Fragments relating to Zoroastrianism, extracts from Persian MSS. from the Kings Library by Olshausen and Julius Mohl]
  • Short note on King Dadar bin Dad-dukht on the supremacy of Persian science in relation to Greek ways of knowing
West Edward William 1824-1905 Engineer and Orientalist Scholar