Editing Wadham College, Oxford (section)

=== Ferdowsi Library ===
The [[Ferdowsi]] Library (formerly the [[Ashraf Pahlavi]] Library) specialises in Persian literature, art, history, and culture. It possesses about 3,500 volumes, almost 800 manuscripts, about 200 lithographs in Arabic and Persian, and about 700 rare and early Armenian books, most of which were donated by Dr. Caro Minasian.<ref name="ferd1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090519.html|title=Wadham receives early birthday present|publisher=University of Oxford|date=19 May 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202162734/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090519.html|archive-date=2 December 2012}}</ref>

At the end of the 1960s, the Warden, [[Maurice Bowra]], President of the [[British Academy]] and one of the first co-founders of the [[British Institute of Persian Studies]] (BIPS), welcomed a donation to construct the building of the New Library in Wadham, where the emphasis would be given to Persian Studies and the post in Persian. Since then a special connection between Wadham and Iran has been established.<ref name="ferd1" />

The Wadham library building was initially funded by donations from the then (1976) Iranian ruling family, the [[Pahlavi dynasty]]. The funds were secured by Fellow and tutor in economics, Eprime Eshag.<ref name="ferd1" /><ref>[http://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/5496/2394 HIM and his Friends | Foot]. Socialist Register. Retrieved on 23 September 2013.</ref>  The building, with associated accommodation blocks, was designed by [[Gillespie, Kidd & Coia]]. Today the library is open 24/7 and has wireless connectivity throughout.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Wadham Library |url=https://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/library/about-wadham-library |access-date=May 8, 2023}}</ref>

[[File:Wadh10.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Maurice Bowra|Bowra Building]] by [[Sir Richard MacCormac]]]]