British Library Iranian and Persian Holdings

Manuscripts: Oriental Collections

 

Barnett, L. D., Preliminary list of manuscripts in languages of Cerotral Asia and Sanskrit, from the collections made by Sir Marc Aurel Stein. Typescript 18 p.
About 50 Soghdian items. To be supplemenid by the Stein Manuscripts Database.

 

Rieu, C., Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. 3 vols. London: British Museum, 1879-83. Reprinted 1966.
Describes 2536 items.

 

Supplement to the Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the British Museum. London: British Museum, 1895. Reprinted 1971. Describes 425 items.

 

Meredith-Owens, G. M., Hand list of Persian manuscripts, 1895-1966. London: British Museum, 1968. Lists the contents of 972 volumes. Manuscripts: India Office Collections

 

Ethé H., Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Vol. 1. Oxford: India Office, 1903.

 

-, - (completed by E. Edwards). Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the India Office. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937. Contains descriptions of 3076 volumes, these being accessions up to 1902 excluding the Delhi Persian and Royal Society collections; with comprehensive indexes.

 

Ross, E. Denison, and Browne, E. G., Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts in the India Office Library. London, 1902. Descriptions of the Jones and Ashbumer Collections, including 166 manuscripts in Persian.

 

Arberry, A. J., "Hand-list of Islamic manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library, 1936-8", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1939, no.3, pp.353-96. Descriptions of (76?) manuscripts: I.O. 4558-4633.

 

Arberry, A. J., "Notes on Islamic manuscripts recently acquired by the Indian Office Library", Islamic Culture, 13 (Hyderabad 1939), pp.440-58. Descriptions of (17?) manuscripts: I.O. 4634-50.

 

Bilgrami. Catalogue of the Delhi Persian manuscripts. Unpublished rough hand list: photocopy of a manuscript in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society.

 

[Draft descriptions by Storey et al. of the Delhi Collection Persian manuscripts]. About 2250 manuscripts.

 

Sims-Williams, U. Hand list of Islamic manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library 1938-85. London: [British Library], 1986. Manuscripts: combined collections

 

Waley, M. I., Supplementary hand list of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998. London: British Library, 1998. Forthcoming: now in press. Covers over 290 volumes, containing about 400 text. Printed books: Oriental Collections

 

Edwards, E., Catalogue of the Persian printed books in the British Museum. London, 1922. Describes about 4000 items.

 

Meredith-Owens, G. M. (ed.Waley, M. I.)., Catalogue of Persian printed books in the British Library, 1923-1970. British Library Microfilm Editions, [ca. 1992]. In the Reading Room.

 

Waley, M. I., [Card catalogue of Persian printed books, 1971-1980]. In the Reading Room. Blumhardt. I. F., Catalogue of Pushtu books. 54 columns. In: Catalogue of the Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi and Pushtu printed books in the Library of the British Museum. London, 1905. McKenzie, D. N., and Waley, M. I., [Card catalogues of Pashtu, Kurdish, and Old and Middle Iranian printed books]. Three separate files. In the Reading Room. Printed books; India Office Library

 

Arberry, A. J., Catalogue of the India Office Library. Vol.2. part 6: Persian books. London, 1937.

 

[Card catalogue of Persian books, 1937-75]. Main entry under title, with cross-references from author etc.

 

[Card catalogue of Persian books, 1975-80]. Printed books: combined collections

 

[For Persian books published since 1981]: Current catalogue of printed books, British Library Humanities and Social Sciences. Available on OPAC or on microfiche in the Reading Room. Periodicals

 

Sims-Williams, U., Union catalogue of Persian serials & newspapers in British Libraries. London: Ithaca, 1985. Manuscript illustrations

 

Titley, N. M., Miniatures from Persian manuscripts: catalogue and subject index of paintings in. the British Library and the British Museum. London: BL, 1974. 377 p., 41 plates. Describes roughly 11,000 miniature paintings, and also 800 paintings and album leaves preserved in the British Museum Department of Oriental Antiquities.

 

Robinson, B.W., Persian paintings in the India Office Library: a descriptive catalogue. London; New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976.

 

Waley, M. I., Supplementary catalogue of Persian and Indo-Persian manuscript illustrations in the British Library. In preparation. Describes miniature paintings and other illustrations in over 40 manuscripts.