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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Bijapur Collection''' refers to an assemblage of manuscripts held primarily in the [[India Office]] collections at the [[British Library]]. The manuscripts, in [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]], were originally part of the [[Adil Shahi]] royal library with many carrying seals of the Adil Shahi rulers.<ref>''India Office Records, Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government'', N.S., No. 41 (Bombay, 1957): 213-42; for an example, see Muḥammad ibn Ismā'īl al-Bukhārī. Islamic Traditions [120] [Data set]. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4488407.</ref> At some point in their history, the manuscripts were removed to the Assur Mahal (اشرمحل).<ref>For photograph taken in the 19th century see: https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/t/019pho0000125s3u00065000.html</ref> The building was home to a college and theological school founded by [[Mohammed Adil Shah, Sultan of Bijapur]], to house a relic of the Prophet.<br />
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[[File:Loth 967.jpg|thumb|Page from the commentary on ʻAbd Allāh ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī's work ''Mughnī al-labīb'' by Muḥammad b. Abī Bakr ad-Damāmīnī (d. ''circa'' 1424) with seals of [[Mahmud Gawan]]. [[British Library]], [[India Office]], IO Islamic B7, Otto Loth's ''Catalogue'', no. 967.]]<br />
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In 1848, [[Bijapur]] was annexed by the British and the library and institution was found to have no funds for its support. The scholar Charles d'Ochoa visited between 1841 and 1843, and arranged the manuscripts, separating "those preserved from the those utterly destroyed."<ref>Rajeshwari Datta, "The India Office Library: Its History, Resources, and Functions," ''The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy'' 36, no. 2 (1966): 99-148.</ref> Items in the [[Marathi language|Marathi]] language collected by Ch. d'Ochoa in the Deccan are held in the BnF.<ref>S. G. Tulpule, "Un catalogue descriptif des manuscrits marathi dans la collection de Charles d'Ochoa de la Bibliothèque nationale Paris," ''Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient'' 75 (1986): 105-123. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/befeo.1986.1702.</ref> Subsequently [[Henry Bartle Frere]], the commissioner of the area, had a catalogue of the Bijapur collection prepared in [[Urdu]] by Hamīd al-din Ḥakīm, and that was translated into English by Erskine. Following an examination of the catalogue by one John Wilson, assisted by local scholars, it was decided that the whole collection should be sent to the Court of Directors of the [[East India Company]] in London. The manuscripts were dispatched in 1853.<ref>Rajeshwari Datta, "The India Office Library: Its History, Resources, and Functions," ''The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy'' 36, no. 2 (1966): 143.</ref> Other parts of the Bijapur library went separate ways and are in the [[Raza Library]], Rampur, the [[Salar Jung Museum]], Hyderabad, the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]], St. Petersburg, the [[Museum of Islamic Art, Doha]], and the [[University of St Andrews Library]].<ref>Examples illustrated in Keelan Overton, "Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur, ''circa'' 1580-1630," ''Muqarnas'' 33 (2016): 91-154. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551683.</ref> The India office parts were catalogued, with other Arabic manuscripts from India, by Otto Loth (1844-1881) and published in 1877.<ref>Otto Loth, ''A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office'' (London, 1877), vol. I, Preface, accessible online in www.archive.org and in Zenodo at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923636. </ref> After a considerable hiatus, Qureshi provided a summary of the collection in 1980,<ref>Saleemuddin Qureshi, "The Royal Library of Bijapur," ''Pakistan Library Bulletin'' 11, nos. 3–4 (September–December 1980): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5044853.</ref> but no in-depth analysis undertaken until 2016 when Overton examined some of the notations, seals and bindings.<ref>Keelan Overton, "Book Culture, Royal Libraries, and Persianate Painting in Bijapur, ''circa'' 1580-1630," ''Muqarnas'' 33 (2016): 91-154. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26551683</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://research.uni-leipzig.de/catalogus-professorum-lipsiensium/leipzig/Loth_1375/ Otto Loth biography]<br />
*[http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1421608 Loth's ''Catalogue'' of the IOL collections published 1877]<br />
*[https://zenodo.org/communities/iolcorpus/ IOL Arabic MSS corpus]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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