The Asiatic Society Library
Kolkata 700016
Website http://www.indev.nic.in/asiatic/Library/index.htm
Introduction: The library was founded in
1784. One of the earliest gifts received
was from the Seringapatam Committee, which sent
portions of Tipu Sultan’s library to the Society in
1808. Among the collections in Arabic
script manuscripts are those of Nawab Aziz Jang of
Catalog (s): Fihrist-i
kutub-i qalami wa matbuat-i
kutubkhanah-i Asiatic Society, edited by Zahir Ali, (
Aloys Sprenger, 1813-1893. Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Hindustani Manuscripts of the Libraries of the King of Oudh, (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1854, reprinted 1979).
Catalogue of Persian Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Asiatic Society, edited by Mirza Ashraf Ali, (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1890)
Catalogue of Persian Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Asiatic Society, edited by Mirza Ashraf Ali, (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1895)
Catalogue of Arabic Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Asiatic Society, edited by Mirza Ashraf Ali, 2 vols. (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 18999-1904)
Catalogue of Arabic and Persian Books and Manuscripts in the Library of the Asiatic Society, edited by Kamaluddin Ahmad and Abdul Muqtadir, (Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1905)
List of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts
Acquired …by the Asiatic Society of Bengal during 1903-1907, edited by M. Hidayat Hosain, (
List of Arabic and Persian Manuscripts
Acquired …by the Asiatic Society of Bengal during 1908-1910, edited by N.Ahmad and H. Razawi, (
Author Catalogue of the Hyderabad Collection
of Manuscripts and Printed Books, edited by William Jones, (
Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, edited by Wladimir Ivanow, (Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1924, reprinted 1985) For the works of Ivanow see Correspondence Corbin-ivonow: lettres entre Henry Corbin et Wladimir Ivanow de 1947 a 1966, edited by Sabine Schmidte, (Paris: Diffusion Peeters, 1999)
Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Curzon Collection, edited by Wladimir Ivanow, (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1926)
Concise Descriptive Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Collection of the Asia Society of Bengal, Supplements 1 & 2 edited by Wladimir Ivanow, (Calcutta: The Asiatic Society, 1927-1928)
Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the
Collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of
Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts (in tabular
form) in the Collection of the Asiatic Society of
Works on the history or individual
manuscripts in the library:
Khalida Husayni, Asiatic Society ki khidamat-i Farsi, (Kolkata: Qasimi Dawakhana, 1997)
Asok Kumar Das, “The Jamiat tawarikh Manuscript in the Asiatic Society Calcutta,” pp. 264-270 in Interaction Between Indian and Central Asian Science and Technology in Medieval Times, v. 2, edited by Wazir Hasan Abdi, (New Delhi: Indian National Science Academy, 1990)
The National Library
Belvedere, Alipore
Kolkata 700027
Website URL http://nlindia.org/index2.html
Introduction: It was established as the
Imperial Library in 1903, renamed in 1947 as the National Library. It contains the collections donated by Mawlawi Sayyid Sadr al-Din al-Musawi, a landlord
of Buhar, Burdwan,
Number of manuscripts: 1,161 (691 Persian, 467 Arabic, 2 Urdu, 1 Turkish)
Catalog (s): Catalogue raisonne of the Buhar Library, 2 vols, edited by Wasim Nasir Rizawi, Maulvi Abdul Muqtadir, and M. Hidayat Hosain, (Calcutta: Imperial Library, 1921-1923; revised edition 1982). Volume 1 pertains to the Persian manuscripts and volume 2 to Arabic; Sayyid Najib Ashraf Nadwi, “Fihrist-i Kutub Khanah-yi Buhar,” Maarif (Azamgarh) (October 1924): 308-317.
Catalogue of the Persian Mss of Sir Jadunath Sarkar Collection, edited by S.M. Hasan, (Calcutta: Imperial Library, 1972); the same author’s “Sir Jadunath Sarkar ke Mahfuza Makhtutat,” Maarif (Azamgarh) (November 1960): 374-88.
Works on the history or individual manuscripts in the library:
M. Hidayat Hosain, “The Founders of the Buhar Library,” Islamic Culture 7 (1933): 125-146; S.M. Hasan, “Jadunath Sarkar’s Collection of Persian Manuscripts.” Bengal Past and Present 90, part I (January-June 1971): 118-121.
Victoria Memorial Hall Library
1 Queen’s Way
Kolkata 700071
Catalog (s):,Manuscripts in Arabic, Persian nd Urdu: A descriptive Catalogue edited by Iqbal Jawed, (Calcutta: Victoria Memorial Library, 1973)
Works
on the history or individual manuscripts in the library:
M. Sami Ahmad, “Anwar-i-Suhaili: A Valuable Manuscript in the Victoria Memorial Collection.” Bulletin of the Victoria Memorial 15 (1979): 31-35; M. Sami Ahmad, “Manuscript Copy of Faizi’s “Nal-Daman” in the Victoria Memorial Collection.” Bulletin of the Victoria Memorial 12 (1978): 28-30.
Murshidabad
http://Kolkata.wb.nic.in/murshidabad/tourism.htm
Introduction:
Murshidabad was the seat of a princely state like
Shantiniketan, Birbhim 731235
Introduction:
This is the university established by Rabindranath Tagore. The Arabic, Persian and Islamic Studies department
is one of the oldest in