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Catalogues (66)

1. Factory correspondence and other Bengali documents in the India Office Library and Records. Supplementary to J.F. Blumhardt's catalogue of the Bengali and Assamese mss. in the library of the India Office (1924)
   Anisuzzaman, 1981, London
2. Catalogue of the Jain manuscripts of the British library: including the holdings of the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum
   Nalini Balbir, 2006, London, 3 vols.
3. List of Pali, Sinhalese, Sanskrit and other manuscripts, formerly in the possession of Hugh Nevill
   L D Barnett, 1909, 3 vols.
4. List of Pali manuscripts (excluding the Nevill Collection Or 6599-6616)
   L. D. Barnett, 1969
5. Catalogue of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the British Museum
   Cecil Bendall, 1902, LondonOnline
6. Guide to an exhibition of Indian and Persian paintings and illuminated mss. with specimens of the art of eastern Tibet, Burma, Siam
   1922, London
7. Oriental manuscripts: an exhibition of Oriental manuscripts in the Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts in the British Museum
   1973, London
8. Jain manuscripts: temporary list
   1969
9. A catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts in the British Museum vol.II
   J. P. Losty, n.d., London
10. Illustrated manuscripts from South Asia in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books: a hand list
    J. P. Losty, n.d.
11. A handlist of Hindi manuscripts in the Oriental Collection after Blumhardt's catalogue, 1899
    1994
12. Catalogue of the Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya, Pushtu and Sindhi manuscripts in the Library of the British museum
    1905, LondonOnline
13. List of Pali mss. in the British Museum acquired since 1883: prepared as a supplement to the list published in the "Journal of the Pali Text Society for the year"
    K. J. R. Hoerning, n.d.
14. Preliminary list of manuscripts in languages of Central Asia and Sanskrit, from the collections made by Sir Marc Aurel Stein
    n.d.
15. List of Sinhalese and Pali manuscripts in the British Library
    n.d.
16. Tibetan manuscripts and books, etc. collected during the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa
    1912
17. A Tibetan collection of books and manuscripts. Listed 12 mss
    1933
18. Catalogue of a collection of Sanskrit manuscripts
    1869, London, several vols.
19. Preliminary report on the Sanskrit fragments in the Hoernle collection
    n.d.
20. Catalogue of the Gujarati and Rajasthani manuscripts in the India Office Library
    1954, LondonOnline
21. A short catalogue of Hindi manuscripts in the India Office Library
    1954
22. Hindustani manuscripts in the library of the India Office, London
    1928
23. Catalogue of manuscripts in European languages belonging to the library of the India Office ...
    Blagden et al., 1916, LondonOnline
24. Catalogue of the Hindi, Panjabi and Hindustani manuscripts in the Library of the British Museum
    J. F. Blumhardt, 1899, LondonOnline
25. Catalogue of the Oriya manuscripts in the library of the India Office
    James Fuller Blumhardt, 1924, London
26. Catalogue of Bengali and Assamese manuscripts in the India Office Library
    James Fuller Blumhardt, 1924, London
27. Catalogue of Hindustani manuscripts in the Library of the India Office
    James Fuller Blumhardt, 1926, London
28. Catalogue of the Marathi manuscripts in the India Office Library
    Blumhardt and Kanhere, 1950, Oxford
29. Catalogue of Pashto manuscripts in the libraries of the British Isles
    Blumhardt and Mackenzie, 1965, London
30. Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and Blockprints outside the Stein Collection in the India Office Library
    P. Denwood, 1975, London
31. Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office
    Julius Eggeling, 1887, London, Issued in parts from 1887; Part I is Vedic Manuscripts. The Internet Archive copy binds Parts I–IV of Volume 1Online
32. Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India office
    Hermann Ethé, 1903, Oxford, 1903– (continuing)Online
33. Catalogue of the Mandalay mss. in the India Office Library: formerly part of the King's Library at Mandalay
    V. Fausball, 1897, London
34. Indian charters on copper plates in the Department of Oriental Manuscripts and Printed Books
    Albertine Gaur, 1975, London
35. A descriptive catalogue of the uncatalogued Arabic, Persian and Urdu manuscripts, relevant to the history and culture of the Muslims in India, acquired by the British Museum since the publication of its last printed catalogues..
    Qazi Mahmud Ul Haq, 1965, London
36. Handlist of Urdu and Panjabi manuscripts acquired by Oriental Collection since 1899
    Qazi Mahmud Ul Haq, 1993, London
37. List of Pali manuscripts in the British Museum
    K. J. R. Hoerning, 1883
38. Buddhist manuscripts from Central Asia: The British Library Sanskrit fragments
    Karashima and Wille, 2006, Tokyo, 5 parts, 2006–2015Online
39. Catalogue of two collections of Persian and Arabic manuscripts preserved in the India office library
    1902, LondonOnline
40. Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the Library of the India office ...
    1930, London, 1930– (continuing)
41. Index of post-1937 European manuscript accessions
    1964, Boston
42. Some illustrated Jaina manuscripts
    J. P. Losty, 1975
43. The art of the book in India
    J. P. Losty, 1982, London
44. A handlist of the Tai and Mon-Khamer manuscripts in the British Museum, together with Pali manuscripts from the corresponding region, and a short bibliography
    George E. Marrison, 1968
45. Catalogue of the Malayalam manuscripts in the India Office Library
    Chelnat Achyuta Menon, 1954, London
46. A collection of manuscripts belonging to the modern Sanskrit literature, presented to the Library of the India Office by A. C. Burnell
    n.d.Unpublished
47. A descriptive catalogue of Persian letters from Arcot and Baroda
    1982, London
48. Accessions of private collections, 1937-1977
    1979, (London) ((197 Blackfriars Rd, S.E.1))
49. Old Tibetan manuscripts from East Turkestan in the Stein Collection of the British Library
    1997, London
50. Catalogue of the Pali mss. in the India Office Library: being appendix to the Journal of the Pali Text Society for 1882
    Hermann Oldenberg, 1882, LondonOnline
51. Catalogue of the Tibetan manuscripts from Tun-huang in the India Office Library
    Louis de la Vallee Poussin, 1962, LondonOnline
52. Catalogue of the Urdu manuscripts in the India Office Library: Supplementary to James Fuller Blumhardt's catalogue of 1926
    Quraishi and Sims-Williams, 1978, London
53. Catalogue of the Urdu, Panjabi, Pashto and Kashmiri manuscripts and documents in the India Office Library and Records
    S. Quraishi, 1990, London
54. Catalogue of the Sinhalese manuscripts in the India Office Library
    C. H. B. Reynolds, 1981, London
55. Catalogue of the Panjabi and Sindhi manuscripts in the India Office Library
    C. Shackle, 1977, London
56. A descriptive catalogue of the Batala collection of Mughal documents, 1527-1757 AD
    M. Z. A. Shakeb, 1990, London
57. Hand list of Islamic manuscripts acquired by the India Office Library 1938-85
    Ursula Sims-Williams, 1986, London
58. Gandhi and civil disobedience: documents in the India Office records, 1922-1946
    Amar Kaur Jasbir Singh, 1980, London
59. Catalogue of the Hugh Nevill collection of Sinhalese manuscripts in the British Library
    K. D. Somadasa, 1987, London, 7 vols., 1987–1995
60. Subject-guide to the Arabic manuscripts in the British Library
    Stocks and Baker, 2001, London
61. Catalogue of two collections of Sanskrit manuscripts preserved in the India Office Library
    Tawney and Thomas, 1903, LondonOnline
62. The Aufrecht Collection
    F. W. Thomas, 1908
63. Burmese manuscripts in the British Museum
    Pe Maung Tin, 1924
64. Classified handlist of Arabic manuscripts acquired since 1912
    R. Vassie, 1995, London, several vols.
65. Supplementary handlist of Persian manuscripts, 1966-1998
    M. I. Waley, 1998, London
66. Catalogue of the Sinhalese mss. in the British Museum
    Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe, 1900, LondonOnline