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² B.M. MS. Add. 22470 belonged to Hāfiz Rahmat of Rohilkhand, and came into the possession of an English officer after Hastings’s Rohilla war, in the course of which the Bareilly library was plundered. Āsaf-ud-daulah, Nawāb-Vazīr of Oudh, secured most of the books for Lucknow, where they were again plundered and scattered in 1858. B.M. MS. Add. 18579 was illustrated for the last king of Bījāpur in the Deccan, whose capital was sacked by Aurangzēb in 1686. Most princes probably owned libraries of considerable value.