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Francis Balfour
The Forms of Herkern, connected from a variety of manuscripts supplied with the distinguishing marks of construction, and translated into English, with an index of Arabic words explained ... / by Francis Balfour. 1781
RCIN 1197175
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A book of Persian state letters (the Insha-yi Harkaran) first published in Calcutta in 1781 as a textbook for teaching the art of Persian letter writing. It includes English translations and a Persian-English vocabulary.
The translator, Francis Balfour, was a Scottish physician employed by the East India Company from 1769-1807. A keen linguist and Orientalist, Balfour was one of the earliest members of the Bengal Asiatic Society, founded in 1784 under the patronage of Warren Hastings, to whom he dedicated this book. -
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