Stories
- Article
Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
- Article
The eye of darshan
The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Persian alchemical and chemical receipts.
Date: 1855Reference: MS.3612Part of: Monckton, Edward Henry Cradock (1812-1878)- Books
An alphabetical index of Persian manuscripts in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras / by S. Kuppuswami Sastri : prepared under the orders of the Government of Madras.
Government Oriental Manuscripts Library (Tamil Nadu, India)Date: 1932- Books
An alphabetical index of Urdu, Arabic, and Persian manuscripts in the Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Madras / by T. Chandrasekharan, ex-curator, P. Thirugnanasambandhan, in-charge of curator, and A. A. Ramanathan, curator, and the staff of the library.
Government Oriental Manuscripts Library (Tamil Nadu, India)Date: 1963- Archives and manuscripts
Seligmann, Franz Romeo (1808-1892), professor of medicine, historian of medicine and Persian scholar
Date: c.1866Reference: MS.7607/15-16Part of: Miscellany: German, 18th-20th centuries- Books
Descriptive catalogue of the Persian manuscripts / by Shaukat Ali Khan.
Arabic and Persian Research Institute Rajasthan.Date: 1987-
