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Chronicle of Akbar The Great. A Description of a Manuscript of the Akbar- Nama illustrated by the Court Painters. Oxford, Printed for presentation to the members of the Roxburghe Club ptinted by Emery Walker 1937. in-folio (46 x 33 cm) demi-maroquin bordeaux, tête dorée; 45 p. de texte et 44 planches en aquatinte, dont 6 coloriées et contrecollées, protégées par des serpentes, tiré sur grand papier. Sir Thomas Walker Arnold (1864-1930), British orientalist. At the age of twenty-four he was appointed teacher of philosophy at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, Aligarh, a post which he held with conspicuous success for ten years. He formed a very strong bond with Indian Muslims and worked devotedly in the cause of reform in Islam. In 1898 he was made Professor of philosophy at Government College, Lahore. Returning to England in 1904, he became Educational Advisor for Indian students. From 1921 until his death he was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at London University. He was knighted in 1921. Thus by 1928 Sir Thomas Arnold could look back on more than forty years of scholarship in Arabic and Persian and a long and honourable career of university teaching, during which he had steeped himself in every aspect of Islamic culture. His great catalogue of Mughal paintings (The Library of A. Chester Beatty, a Catalogue of the Indian Miniatures, London) was not published until 1936. This was followed by this monumental work done with J. V. S