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The India office parts were catalogued, with other Arabic manuscripts from India, by Otto Loth (1844–1881) and published in 1877. After a considerable hiatus, Qureshi provided a summary of the collection in 1980, but no in-depth analysis undertaken until 2016 when Overton examined some of the
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was annexed by the British and the library and institution were found to have no funds for their support. The scholar Charles d'Ochoa visited between 1841 and 1843, and arranged the manuscripts, separating "those preserved from the those utterly destroyed." Subsequently
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by Hamīd al-din Ḥakīm, and that was translated into English by Erskine. Following an examination of the catalogue by one John Wilson, assisted by local scholars, it was decided that the whole collection should be sent to the Court of Directors of the
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royal library with many carrying seals of the Adil Shahi rulers. At some point in their history, the manuscripts were removed to the Ashar Mahal (ٱشار محل). The building was home to a college and theological school founded by
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S. G. Tulpule, "Un catalogue descriptif des manuscrits marathi dans la collection de Charles d'Ochoa de la Bibliothèque nationale Paris,"
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Examples illustrated in Keelan Overton, "Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur,
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language collected by Ch. d'Ochoa in the Deccan are held in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/t/019pho0000125s3u00065000.html
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Rajeshwari Datta, "The India Office Library: Its History, Resources, and Functions,"
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Rajeshwari Datta, "The India Office Library: Its History, Resources, and Functions,"
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Keelan Overton, "Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur,
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India Office Records, Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government
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A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office
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Other parts of the Bijapur library went separate ways and are in the
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Page from the commentary on ʻAbd Allāh ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī's work
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Saleemuddin Qureshi, "The Royal Library of Bijapur,"
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The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy
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The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy
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in London. The manuscripts were dispatched in 1853.
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Index

manuscripts
India Office
British Library
Arabic
Persian
Adil Shahi
Mohammed Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur

Mahmud Gawan
British Library
India Office
Bijapur
Henry Bartle Frere
Urdu
East India Company
Raza Library
Salar Jung Museum
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
University of St Andrews Library
Marathi
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4488407
https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/t/019pho0000125s3u00065000.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551683
https://doi.org/10.3406/befeo.1986.1702
https://www.archive.org
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5044853
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551683
Otto Loth biography

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