The Mulla Feroze Library. Authors' Catalogue of Printed and Lithographed Books and Some Manuscripts With a List of Newspapers and Other Miscellaneous Papers.

Published by Bombay, published by the Managing Committee of the Mulla Feroze Library, printed at the Fort Printing Press, 1928.

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8vo (185 x 264 mm). VI, 184 pp. Near-contemporary boards with cloth spine, preserving the original wrapper cover. Extremely rare catalogue of the Mulla Feroze Library of Zoroastrian printed and lithographed books, periodicals, and manuscripts. - Firuz Mulla Bin Kawoos (1758-1830), a Parsi priest of the Kadmi sect and author of the epic Persian poem "George Nama" (a history of India from its discovery by the Portuguese and of the English in India to 1819), was respected as a scholar of oriental languages and as a collector of Persian and Arabic manuscripts. On his death his library was gifted to the elders of the Kadmi Zoroastrians, who created the "Mulla Firuz Ketabkhana" collection in Mumbai. (A madrasa bearing his name, for instruction of Zoroastrians in their sacred lore, was founded in 1854.) In 1916 his library was absorbed into the newly-founded K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Bombay, established to perpetuate the memory of Mr. Kharshedji Rustomji Cama (d. 1909), a renowned oriental scholar, linguist, social reformer and educator. The library today forms one of the most important collections of Avestan manuscripts in the world. - Only two copies listed on OCLC (Columbia; Harvard Divinity School). - OCLC 44658707. Not in Besterman. Cf. Trupti Dattatraya More, Role of Oriental Libraries in India With Special Reference to Deccan (unpublished doctoral thesis, Pune, 2015), pp. 119f., 155.

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The Mulla Feroze Library. Authors' Catalogue of Printed and Lithographed Books and Some Manuscripts With a List of Newspapers and Other Miscellaneous Papers.
Author
[Mulla Feroze Library]. (K. R. Cama Oriental Institute / Modi, Jivanji Jamshedi [ed.]).
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Bombay, published by the Managing Committee of the Mulla Feroze Library, printed at the Fort Printing Press, 1928.
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