4to. viii, 177 pp., double-columns per page, contemporary green cloth, lightly rubbed, title gilt on spine, index, The Clarendon Press, Oxford, first edition, 1954.

Synopsis

Part 1: The Persian manuscripts, begun by E. Sachau, continued, completed and edited by H. Ethé. (Describes 2,038 manuscripts).
Part 2: Turkish, Hindûstânî, Pushtû and additional Persian manuscripts, by H. Ethé. (Describes 291 Turkish, 161 Persian, 43 Urdu, 4 Pashto and 1 “polyglot”).
Part 3: Additional Persian manuscripts, by A.F.L. Beeston describes a further 410 manuscripts.
(Part 2 of the catalogue contains a title index and conspectus of shelf marks for parts 1 and 2; part 3 contains its own index of titles and conspectus of shelf marks, and in addition, an index of authors, scribes and owners for all 3 parts. It also contains a “Conspectus of manuscripts dated earlier than A.H. 1000”).