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Pand-ṇāmah

The Pand-ṇāmah, or Book of Counsels, a much disputed didactic poem ascribed to Saʻdī, which is however not found in the usual copies of the Kullīyāt.

Saʻdī

Nigāristān

A collection of historical anecdotes and curious narratives of celebrated men by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ghaffārī, written in several hands.

Ghaffārī, Ahmad ibn Muhammad, approximately 1495-1567 or 1568

Miscellany

A volume, in the hand of Benjamin Millingchamp, containing various texts, including 'An Essay on Picturesque Sketching'; 'A Hymn to Camdeo' and 'A Hymn to Narayena' by Sir William Jones; 'The Exile', a poem; an essay on 'Predestination'; an essay on the history of India; essays and extracts relating to religion, theology, and astronomy; sermons, etc.

Miscellany

Miscellaneous poetry, including mathnawi verses and three ghazals (ff. 1 verso-3), and the stories of Adam, Abraham and Jacob taken from a Persian version of the history of the ancient prophets (ff. 3 verso-17 verso).

Miscellanea

Miscellanea, including translations from Oriental texts, English-Chinese, English-Persian and English-Arabic vocabularies, notes on French grammar, forms of prayers, etc.

Life and letters of Benjamin Millingchamp

Two volumes containing the manuscript, dated 7 April 1940 (f. iv), of the 'Life and Letters of the Ven[era]ble Benjamin Millingchamp, D.D'. by Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan.
The work contains transcripts of part of a journal of Benjamin Millingchamp, family correspondence and other papers (many of which are now in NLW MSS 13933-5), as well as biographical notes supplied by the author. Parts of this work were previously published in the author's articles 'A naval chaplain of the eighteenth century', United Service Magazine (January 1903), 348-376, and 'An Indian chaplain of the eighteenth century', East and West (Bombay) (1901), 289-298.

Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp), 1870-1948

Letters and papers of Benjamin Millingchamp

A volume containing letters and papers, 1778-1829, relating to Benjamin Millingchamp, including family and other correspondence. The documents include his admission to holy orders and other clerical appointments, 1778-1827 (ff. i-vi, 1), correspondence with the Admiralty Office, 1778 (ff. 2-5 verso), and a certificate of his proficiency in Persian, 1796 (f. 113).

Kullīyāt-i Saʻdī

A copy of the collected works of Saʻdī of Shiraz (Musharrif ud-Dīn b. Muṣliḥ ud-Dīn; c. 1200-c. 1292) in prose and verse, including Gulistān (ff. 32 verso-97) and Bustān (ff. 97 verso-220).

Saʻdī

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