University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

A number of letters, etc, written and collected at the request of friends by Khwājah Shihāb al-Dīn, or as he calls himself, ‘Abd-Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Marwārīd (d. 922 A.H., 1516 C.E.), a poet from Kerman, present day Iran, who used the pen name "Bayānī".

Models of various kinds of correspondence by Harkarn, son of the Mathurā-Dās Kanbū Multānī, whom Mughal ruler Jahāngīr (r. 1605-1627 C.E.) had appointed Ṣūbahdūr, or governor, of Akbarābād (Agra) during 1031-1032 A.H., 1621-1622 C.E.

A collection of letters written to the Mughal ruler Shāhjahān (r. 1628–1658 C.E.) and other distinguished individuals during his reign, by Chandarbhān (d. 1068 or 1073 A.H., 1657 or 1662 C.E.), poetically named "Brahman". He was for a time a record-writer at the royal court and author of the Chahār-Chaman.

Copied in the Faṣlī year 1179 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) by Ṣāhib-Singh of Fatḥpūr (Awadh).

A collection of letters composed by Shīr ‘Alī, or his more common name 'Shīr-Ḥamlah'. Copied by Shīw-Bakhsh in the Faṣlī year 1178 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) at Maḥmūdābād.

A collection of letters composed by Bhūpat-Rāi, at the request of his patron Ra‘dandāz-Khān.