Indo-Persian and Persianate Manuscripts in Britain: Provenance and Collection
BIPS Flagship Research Project ‘Persian Manuscripts Between East and West’
Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge 3 November 2023
The workshop is open to the public by prior registration is required at [email protected]
9.20am Introduction
Panel 1. 9.30-11.00
James White – Collecting in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: The Thompson-Hyde Network
Charles Melville – From Oudh to Christ’s – the tortuous peregrinations of the Hutton collection of Oriental manuscripts
Catherine Ansorge – An Arabian Nights manuscript and its journey to Cambridge
Coffee/tea 10.45-11.15
Panel 2. 11.00-12.45
Christopher Bahl and Jake Benson – Colonel George Hamilton and his networks- collector, commissioner and connoisseur of Arabic and Persian manuscripts in nineteenth century South Asia
Vivek Gupta – Archives in the Air: A Lucknow Lady’s Songs and Colonel’s Library Reunited in Cambridge
Ursula Sims-Williams – A 19th century cleric in South India: the collection of Thomas Robinson, Archdeacon of Madras and Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge.
Lunch 12.45pm-2pm and viewing of AIIT Persian mss
Panel 3. 2pm-3.30pm
Michael Willis –Arabic Manuscripts in the Bijapur Library: Otto Loth and Beyond
Lucy Deacon – John Baillie of Leys and the Edinburgh fragment of Rashīd al-Dīn’s Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh
Andrew Peacock – The Dunimarle Collection
3.30pm-4.00pm – tea
Panel 4. 4pm-5.30pm
Firuza Melville – The Cambridge Hilali and its decoration programme
Sheida Heydarishovir – A Closer Look at the Delhi Collection
Yasmin Faghihi- Investigating the origins of Islamicate manuscripts using computational methods
5.30 closing remarks
5.40-7pm Reception hosted by the Ancient India and Iran Trust
The workshop is financed by BIPS with the support of the Sufi Manuscript Cultures research project