Among Zoroastrian burial items, there is a camel-shaped zoomorphic OSTADON lying there. It was found…
The Raza Library is a rich treasury of ancient rare works and manuscripts.
Each manuscript has its own story about how it ended up in the library. For example, manuscript of the Majālis al-ʻUshshāq, traveled from the Mughal Imperial Library at Dihlī to Rampur. It bears endorsement in the hand of ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān-i Khānān, with his seal, dated 999 A.H./1591 C.E., recording that it was purchased from Khwāja Sheikh Muḥammad at 250 rupees for the Imperial Library. It bears seals of librarians of Emperor Shāhjahān and Aurangzeb when entered to the registers of their libraries.
A square seal also can be seen that of Badr al-Daula Shujāʻ al-Mulk Muḥammad Saʻādatmand Khān Bahādur Asad Jung, the Nawwāb of Farrukhābād dated 1238 A.H./1822 – 1823 C.E. This valuable book was acquired by the Nawwāb Ghālib Jung from Shāhjahānābād (Dihlī) and given to Aḥmad ʻAlī Bangash, the munṣarim (keeper) of the State Library at Rampur in 1903 C.E. (ref. Hafiz Nazir Ahmad, Notes on Important Arabic and Persian Manuscripts (1918), pp. 260 – 261., John Seyller, The Inspection and Verification of Manuscripts in the Imperial Library (1997), pp. 310 – 311).
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Literary legacy of Uzbekistan in the Collection of the Rampur raza Library" (volume XXXIII) in the series "Cultural legacy of Uzbekistan in the Collections of the World".
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