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The Parsees
Date: 1852Reference: MS.4396Part of: Scattergood, Thomas (1825-1900)- Books
Collected Sanskrit writings of the Parsis : old translations of Avestâ and Pahlavi-Pâzend books as well as other original compositions, with various readings and notes / collated, corrected, and edited by Ervad Sheriarji Dadabhai Bharucha.
Date: 1906-<1933>- Pictures
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Parsee women wearing saris: group portrait. Photograph, ca. 1900.
Date: 1900Reference: 574822i- Pictures
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Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 664500i- Books
A community at the cross-road / by Sapur Faredun Desai.
Desai, Sapur Faredun.Date: 1948- Books
Hōm Yašt (Yasn IX-XI) : Neryosangh's Sanskrit Version with the original Avesta and its Pahlavi version translated with copious notes and a glossarial index / by Jamshedji Maneckji Unvala.
Nairiū-saṅgh.Date: 1924- Books
A display of two forraigne sects in the East Indies, viz. the sect of the Banians, the ancient natiues of India, and the sect of the Persees, the ancient inhabitants of Persia, together with the religion and maners of each sect / Collected into two bookes by Henry Lord.
Lord, Henry, active 1624-1630.Date: 1630- Pictures
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Hong Kong: the Parsee Cemetery, Happy Valley. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
Floyd, William Pryor.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 29704iPart of: Floyd, William Pryor.- Pictures
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A Zoroastrian baptism in Persia. Etching after B. Picart.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733Reference: 11515i- Archives and manuscripts
Notebook
Date: 1862-1888Reference: MS.5875Part of: Gray, John Temperley (1835-1892), P.&O. Company ship's surgeon- Pictures
An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 535789iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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A Parsee or Zoroastrian funeral: the body is viewed by a dog, before being exposed on a tower to be eaten by vultures. Engraving after B. Picart, 1727.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: [1723-1743]Reference: 567873i- Pictures
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A dying Parsee with a small dog held with its muzzle to his mouth, to receive his departing soul. Engraving attributed to C. du Bosc after B. Picart, ca. 1730.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1730Reference: 567863i- Pictures
The holy Cow personified as World Mother with many Sanskrit verses. Chromolithograph.
Ravi Varma, 1848-1906.Reference: 26687i- Archives and manuscripts
Scattergood, Thomas (1825-1900)
Scattergood, Thomas, 1825-1900.Date: 1845-1876Reference: MSS.4385-4413- Books
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A voyage to the East Indies; Containing authentic accounts of the Mogul Government in general, the Viceroyalties of the Decan and Bengal, with their several subordinate dependances. Of Angria, the Morattoes, and Tanjoreans. Of the Mahometan, Gentoo, and Parsee religions. Of their customs and antiquities, with general reflections on the trade of India. Of the European settlements, particularly those belonging to the English; their respective factories, governments; trade, fortifications and public buildings: the history of the war with the French from 1754 to the conclusion of the general peace in 1763. By Mr. Grose. In two volumes. A new edition. Illustrated with views and several plans, not in the former edition. To which is added, A journey from Aleppo to Busserah, over the desert, by Mr. Charmichael.
Grose, John Henry, active 1750-1783.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Pictures
Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 18638i- Pictures
Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1981Reference: 18639i- Pictures
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The parable of the mote and the beam. Oil painting by Minus (Minas) M. Zorab, 1880.
Zorab, Minus Megerdich, 1833-1896.Date: 1880Reference: 44563i- Books
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Entick's new Latin-English dictionary, designed for the use of grammar schools, and private education: containing all the words and phrases proper for reading the classic authors in both languages. Accurately collected from the most approved Latin Authors. Accompanied with every Improvement to supply the Deficiencies of other Dictionaries, and to enable the Scholar to parse and construe each Word according to its various Interpretations by the best Authors in the English Tongue. A new edition, revised and augmented throughout by William Crakelt, M. A. Rector of Nursted and Ifield in Kent.
Entick, John, 1703?-1773.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The Famous and delightful history of fortunatus, and his two sons: In two parts. Part I. Containing an account of his noble birth, travels, and adventures, in many strange land; how became by a parse, which always supplied him with store of money, and a wishing hat which caused him to be in an instant at any place he desired to be at; how, at has death, he bequethed his purse and hat to his two sons; with his pompous funeral, monument and epitaph. Part II. Containing, the travels and adventures of Andalusia and Anpala, Forunatus's ..., with their untimely deaths, burials, ....
Date: 1702- Books
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The new Latin and English dictionary, designed for the use of grammar schools, and private education: containing all the words and phrases proper for reading the classic authors in both languages. Accurately collected from the most approved Latin Authors; Accompanied with every Improvement to supply the Deficiencies of other Dictionaries, and to enable the Scholar to parse and construe each Word according to its various Interpretation by the best Authors in the English Tongue. By John Entick, M. A. Editor of Schrevelius's Greek Lexicon; Littleton and Cole's Latin Dictionaries; and Author of the New Spelling Dictionary, &c.
Entick, John, 1703?-1773.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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Introduction to the English tongue. In three parts containing, Part I. Easy lessons for beginners, in spelling and reading, with a sketch of sacred history and chronology, the principles of the Christian religion, and a few suitable prayers for the use of schools, as well as private families. Part II. An abstract of grammar and rhetoric for those who have made a greater proficiency, to enable them to parse in English, and consequently understand and write their mother tongue, with more correctness and elegance. Part III. A brief treatise of arithmetic by way of introduction to a higher course, which will be found very useful, and answer the purpose of schools, where arithmetic is made a necessary part of business. By William Mc.Gowan, master of the English academy, Chancery Lane.
McGowan, William.Date: 1773- Books
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The new Latin and English dictionary, designed for the use of grammar schools, and private education: containing all the words and phrases proper for reading the classic authors in both languages. In two parts. I. An English-Latin-Dictionary, carefully compiled from the most celebrated English Writers, rendered in proper and Classical Latin, and the Words distinguish'd according to their several Parts of Speech. II. A Latin-English-Dictionary, accurately collected from the most approved Latin Authors, and accompanied with every Improvement to supply the Deficiencies of other Dictionaries, and to enable the Scholar to parse and construe each Word according to its various Interpretation by the best Authors in the English Tongue. By John Entick, M. A. Editor of Schrevelius's Greek Lexicon; Littleton and Cole's Latin Dictionaries; and Author of the New Spelling Dictionary, &c.
Entick, John, 1703?-1773.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
Catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the library of the India office / by Hermann Ethé.
India Office Library.Date: 1903-1937