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Excerpt from Catalogue Raisonne of the Buhar Library, Vol. 1: Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Buhar Library How extensive the Buhar Library was at the time of the decease of Munshi sadr-ud-din is not known. Much is understood to have been lost between that date and the assumption of charge by Maulavi sadr-ud-din Ahmad about the middle of last century. It then consisted of only 100 manuscripts and some printed books. By [905 it had grown by purchase, as well as by the addition of copies of manuscripts in other Indian libraries, to a collection of four hundred and sixty-eight Arabic manuscripts, four hundred and eighty-three Persian manuscripts, one Turkish manuscript, and one Urdu manu script, besides about nine hundred and forty Arabic, four hundred Persian, and one hundred and forty Urdu books, printed or litho graphed. This growth was due entirely to the enthusiastic spirit of Maulavi sadr-ud-din Ahmad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.