Unbound.Text is followed by biographical accounts of Nūr Jahān Baygum and Zīb al-Nisā Baygum (ff. 11v-14r).Copied in the hand of Aḥmad on March 20, 1849 for an American named Idavārd Hāl Ṣāḥib (Edward Hall?) (ff. 11r).MS Persian 92. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.
Translated by Muḥammad Bāqir Khurāsānī Biranjirdī (?) in 1223 1808 in Hyderabad Deccan for Henry Russell.Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.Title from double title page (f. 4v).30.6 x 23 cm. (21 x 13 cm.)Cream laid paper. Cloth binding.MS Persian 11. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.
Title from f. 1r.Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black and red.Missing one leaf at beginning.MS Arab SM4186. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Abstract: The item comprises one enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter 13 July 1830.The enclosure consists of a memorandum by Governor in Council, John Malcolm, entitled ‘Notes on the Invasion of India by Russia’, being his remarks on Sir John Macdonald’s report on the subject (who was commenting on the views of Lieutenant-Colonel Evans). The memorandum includes Malcolm’s views on the history of Russia’s interest and activity in India (which he states have not changed significantly since his submission of a memorandum on the same topic in 1800, and generally accord with those of MacDonald and Evans); and an analysis of the possibility of Russia invading India in terms of Russia’s policy, capability, possible routes, and influence over Persia [Iran]. The account was written at Dapooree [Dapuri], dated 4 July 1830.Physical description: The despatch comprises one enclosure (unnumbered).
Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-18 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 16 June 1851-17 January 1852.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to four separate subjects.Folios 85-97 cover a complaint from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran] that tents supplied to the British Mission at Tehran by the Government of Bombay in 1849 have proven to be of inferior quality to previous batches, and an enquiry into the tendering process and specifications of the tents.Folios 98-99 consist of an extract from a resolution by the East India Company Secret Committee relating to the establishment of steam navigation on the Indus and Punjab rivers for the purposes of communication.Folios 100-103 cover attempts to reduce the volume of communications between departments of the Government of India.Folios 104-113 cover the trade in enslaved persons within the dominions of the Imam of Muscat and Oman (including Zanzibar), and efforts against it by both the Imam and the British.The primary correspondents are: the Envoy in Tehran; the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the Secret Committee; and the British Consul, Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (33 folios)
az ʻAlī Khān Ḥijāzī mulaqqab bih Viqār al-Mulk.LithographedDigital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MH
Copy completed in the hand of Jaʻfar Bīk ibn Farrukh Bīk on 18 Dhū al-Qaʻdah 1097 October 6, 1686 in Akbarabad.Bound with: Fatḥ al-ʻazīz li-ahl al-tamyīzʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Akbarābādī (ff. 1r-16v).MS Arab SM4353. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black and red.On f. 1r, ownership statement dated 1138 AH 1725 AD ; ownership seal by Muḥammad Riḍā dated 1134 AH 1721 AD and another one by Khwājah ... al-Dīn dated, 1196 AH 1782 AD.MS Arab SM4154. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black and red.According to the colophon (f. 18v), copy completed in 1271 AH 1854 or 5 AD.MS Arab SM4211. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.