Selections from the Bhāgavatapurāṇa. Text begins with invocation to Krishna and Ganesha in Sanskrit transliterated into Persian. Some pages are missing.
Copy of a series of branching questions and answers about religious philosophy and practice, divided into chapters by topic. This copy begins and ends abruptly. The first complete chapter is kitāb-i tawḥīd (beginning f. 2r) and the last, incomplete, chapter is kitāb-i qaz̤ā (beginning f. 155r).
Description of eleven trades and crafts practiced in Bareilly, India; illustrated with 12 pen and ink drawings of tools and with five colored illustrations of craftspeople. Commissioned by Robert Glyn who was magistrate and judge of the district of Bareilly from 1818-1823. Craftsmen and tradesmen include glass maker, crimper, gram parcher, weaver, pansāri (vendor, this includes a price list for merchandise), wire maker, gold and silver thread and lace maker, kabāb maker (with recipes for making kabābs), and goldsmith.
A versified Arabic-Persian glossary facilitating the study of Arabic language and prosody. Words are explained in the form of qiṭʻahs composed in various meters. This copy is missing a page between leaves 2 and 3
Treatise on music or melody, adapted by the Persian scribe Ruhbānī from a treatise written for the Sultan Maḥmūd of the Bahamanids, a Deccani dynasty. The final pages in Hindi use Sanskrit terms and include a discussion of the female personification of music and aspects of Rāgamālās.
