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Art Exhibition catalogue entitled, "взэсгэлэн".

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 21 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Artā Virāf Nāmak in Pazand and Sanskrit. "Transliterated by Prof. M. Haug in 1871. Examined and Corrected (to agree with the [original] MS.) by collation with original MS. (M.Z.63, H.Z.18) April 1883 by E.W.West"

There are 3 individual items:

• A wax impression of Burton's seal
• Wooden walking stick presented by the King of Dahomey
• Burton's Consular Hat

There are six letters, written to and by the Reverend Arthur Stanley Bishop between 1907 and 1908. Bishop was the superintendent of the Wesleyan Methodist Book Room at the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, Colombo.

Three newspaper article cuttings. These are: 'Drawings from the Caves of Ajunta' by George Birdwood from The Athenaeum (31st October 1874); 'A Lintel From Nineveh' by J. Fergusson and 'The Ajunta Caves' by George Birdwood from The Athenaeum (27th February 1875); and 'Asiatic' from the Academy (13th March 1894).

Photocopy of an article entitled 'Henry Thomas Colebrooke (1765-1837): The Fourth President of the Asiatic Society' by Ludo Rocher, from South Asian Review, South Asian Literary Association Journal, Volume VIII, Number 5, December 1984.

Typed article on Mahammad Ali Mirza Kazym-bay and architect Mikail Useinov, two Azerbaijani members of RAS, and a typed biography of the latter. Filed together are 6 B&W negatives showing landmark locations in the city of Baku, Azerbaijan, sent by the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan (with the original envelop).

Typed document containing a blurb of Martin Moir’s book ‘Not Exactly Shangri-La’, his biography, and a transcript of an interview of him discussing the book, November 2009.

Typed biographical article on Miguel Asln Palacios, Professor of Arabic at the University of Madrid.

Photocopy of the preface to the Festschrift dedicated to Prince Takahito Mikasa on his 75th birthday, giving details of his qualifications. The preface was written by Masao Mori, Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Middle Easter Culture Center in Japan.