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The Persian version of the collection of animal fables by Maulānā Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ Kāshifī, in fourteen chapters.

A copy of Saʻdī's Gulistān (the Rose Garden) (see also NLW MS 4393C).

An incomplete manuscript journal, 1781-1782, by Benjamin Millingchamp recounting his travels in India aboard the H.M.S. Superbe.

A complete copy of the romantic mathnawi Yūsuf and Zalīkhā by Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī.

A volume containing copies of various works of prose and poetry [?in the hand of Benjamin Millingchamp].

English translations of the story of Noah (ff. 1-5) and of a fragment of the story of Haidar Ali of Mysore (ff. 20-39, inverted text).

A volume containing letters and papers, 1778-1829, relating to Benjamin Millingchamp, including family and other correspondence. The documents include his admission to holy orders and other clerical appointments, 1778-1827 (ff. i-vi, 1), correspondence with the Admiralty Office, 1778 (ff. 2-5 verso), and a certificate of his proficiency in Persian, 1796 (f. 113).

An incomplete manuscript, [1781], [in the hand of Benjamin Millingchamp] containing an account of a visit to Vellore and Arcot in Madras state, India.
A note in the hand of the donor, 1940, is included (f. i); this states that part of the account was published in East and West (Bombay) (1906).

A collection of historical anecdotes and curious narratives of celebrated men by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ghaffārī, written in several hands.

A volume containing copies of various works of prose and poetry.

A volume containing copies of various works of prose and poetry in various hands.

Drafts of sermons [by Benjamin Millingchamp], sketches in sepia, etc.

A volume, in the hand of Benjamin Millingchamp, containing various texts, including 'An Essay on Picturesque Sketching'; 'A Hymn to Camdeo' and 'A Hymn to Narayena' by Sir William Jones; 'The Exile', a poem; an essay on 'Predestination'; an essay on the history of India; essays and extracts relating to religion, theology, and astronomy; sermons, etc.

Two volumes containing the manuscript, dated 7 April 1940 (f. iv), of the 'Life and Letters of the Ven[era]ble Benjamin Millingchamp, D.D'. by Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan.
The work contains transcripts of part of a journal of Benjamin Millingchamp, family correspondence and other papers (many of which are now in NLW MSS 13933-5), as well as biographical notes supplied by the author. Parts of this work were previously published in the author's articles 'A naval chaplain of the eighteenth century', United Service Magazine (January 1903), 348-376, and 'An Indian chaplain of the eighteenth century', East and West (Bombay) (1901), 289-298.

An almanac for the year 1796 containing a few diary entries in pencil by Benjamin Millingchamp, recording some incidents of his homeward voyage from India.

A copy of the collected works of Saʻdī of Shiraz (Musharrif ud-Dīn b. Muṣliḥ ud-Dīn; c. 1200-c. 1292) in prose and verse, including Gulistān (ff. 32 verso-97) and Bustān (ff. 97 verso-220).

A copy of Saʻdī's Būstān, beginning exactly as the copy in NLW MS 4393C.

The Pand-ṇāmah, or Book of Counsels, a much disputed didactic poem ascribed to Saʻdī, which is however not found in the usual copies of the Kullīyāt.

A further copy of Saʻdī's Pand-ṇāmah (see also NLW MS 4396C)

Miscellaneous poetry, including mathnawi verses and three ghazals (ff. 1 verso-3), and the stories of Adam, Abraham and Jacob taken from a Persian version of the history of the ancient prophets (ff. 3 verso-17 verso).