This includes 34 Judaeo-Persian manuscripts which have been digitised as part of the on-going Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project. To date we have digitised 89 manuscripts which are available, cover to cover, at the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts (see list below for details). During the first two phases, in partnership with the Iran Heritage Foundation and other supporters, we digitised 50 manuscripts and completed the cataloguing of all acquisitions made after 1903. In this third phase we are focussing on cataloguing the Persian manuscripts that were formerly part of the Mughal Imperial Library, Delhi, which were transferred to the India Office Library by the Government of India in 1876. At the same time we are digitising and putting online some of the most significant manuscripts in the collection. The project involves creating catalogue records for uncatalogued manuscripts, standardizing existing print records and creating digital files to make them available online. The British Library is now in Phase 3 of a program to enable digital access to the Persian collections. With limited access to catalogue records, the collection has therefore been much underused. Our Persian manuscripts have, until recently, only been accessible onsite to those who can physically visit the British Library to study in the Asian and African Studies reading room. Moreover, very little of the collection has been digitised. 10r)Īlthough printed catalogues exist for most of this material, only some of the catalogues are available online. Scene from the Shāhnāmah (Book of Kings): Bath scene, illustrating the story in the preface of how Firdawsī scornfully gave away to a bath house attendant half the paltry reward Sultan Mahmud gave him for writing the Shāhnāmah ( IO Islamic 3540, f. Many of the Persian manuscripts are copies of rare texts, with examples of some of the finest illustrated Mughal, Timurid and Safavid paintings. These manuscripts originate from the whole of the Persianate world, in particular Iran, Central Asia and India and range in time from the 12th century to recent years, representing most of the traditional fields of humanities and religious studies. Consisting of over 11,000 works in almost as many volumes, it combines the two world-class collections of the British Museum and the India Office Library. Learn about related digital resources on our Additional Resources page.(Click here to go straight to a list of all manuscripts digitised so far)įrom the pocket miscellany ( Add.MS.27261), with its exquisite miniature illuminations, compiled in 1410-11 for Timur's grandson Sultan Jalal al-Din Iskandar, ruler of Fars, to unique historical documents and literary manuscripts, the Persian Manuscripts collection at the British Library is one of the most significant collections in the world in both size and importance.These items are not described as part of the Hastings collection and are discoverable as individual items in Summon Discovery and the manuscript card catalog. Over the decades, The Huntington has acquired other single items related to the Hastings collection.Learn how to find manuscripts in the library catalog. Refer to the finding aid for the call number for each subseries (e.g., HAF is the Hastings Accounts and Financial series). The collection’s call number prefix is HA.Learn how to request materials without library catalog records. All Hastings manuscript materials must be paged manually through Aeon.Remote researchers should contact the library. Current readers may retrieve the card index through Aeon. A card index of places and principal names for The Hastings Deeds series is available on-site.The microfilmed correspondence is available for use on-site at The Huntington Library, and can be requested via Interlibrary Loan. A complete list (up to 1828) is available in the Harvester microform guide “The Hastings Collection of Manuscripts from the Huntington Library in California,” available online through the HathiTrust Digital Library.The correspondence for the Hastings collection is cataloged at an item level:.Access the finding aid for this collection via Summon Discovery. This particular finding aid is a digitized hand-list, available as a downloadable PDF file. It contains item-level listings of most, but not all, of the series within this collection.The Guide is available online through the HathiTrust Digital Library. “Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in The Huntington Library” (pages 78-144) provides a detailed summary of the contents of each of the series.
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