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less than one thousand four hundred passages."
Sixty-one of these are now in Vienna in the
Museum for Art and Industry and are to be pub-
lished soon in an illustrated catalogue, which may
have already appeared in Vienna, with text by
Heinrich Gluck and Josef Strzygowski. There is
another of these pages from the Romance in
Berlin and one in Leipzig. Twenty-seven are in
the Indian section of the Victoria and Albert
Museum at South Kensington. A catalogue of
these with collotype reproductions of a number of
them was published by the Museum in 1921 with
an admirable introduction by C. Stanley Clarke,
son of Sir C. Purdon Clarke who had brought

back from Srinigar in 1881 twenty-four miniatures
of the series which he found in a wooden hut on
the Hawa Kadal Bridge that spans the River
Jhelum. Some of them were covering the latticed
windows to keep out the cold in the frosty season
and all of them had the faces smudged out by
Moslem fanatics who took the Prophet's word in
its literal sense. The Metropolitan Museum in
New York has three which Mr. Lockwood cle
Forrest brought back from Kashmir. Twenty-
two more illustrations came to this country in the
collection of the late Reiza Khan Monif, and from
these, catalogued as a History of Timur in a New
York auction, Mr. John Frederick Lewis, Presi-

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