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Catalogue and guide to Government Museum, Alwar

Type
Descriptive catalogue
Languages
Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu
Manuscripts
122
Collections
Rajasthan Government Museum, Alwar
Online
No online copy known
Sources
Attested in:
  • Biswas 1998 no. 0039
Not independently checked

Description (Biswas 1998)

Pt. I: sculptures, inscriptions, arts, crafts and paintings - manuscripts sections. 103 p.; xii plates. Description of 122 mss. (sl. no. 2016 - 2137) 29 Sanskrit, 3 Hindi and 90 Arabic, Persian and Urdu mss. with notes, (p. 91 - 103). The most valued ms. in the Museum is Gulistan (dated 1258 ad.) of Shekh Muslihuddin Saadi of Shiraz in Persian. The museum possesses 4863 Sanskrit, 608 Persian 374 Hindi and 73 Urdu mss. The collection has been transferred to the R.O.R.I., Alwar branch and A.P.R.I. Tonk. [No more Part published]

From S. C. Biswas, Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi, 1998), no. 0039, as printed; OCR text, may contain errors.

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