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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Language Farsi

81. Mss Eur F111/391, f 12

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/391, f 12
Title:
Poster Conveying a Message from the Amir of Afghanistan to the Afghan People
Scope & Content:
Poster conveying a message from the Amir of Afghanistan [Emir of Afghanistan], Abdur Rahman Khan, to the Afghan people. In the text, which is written in Farsi, the Amir quotes certain verses from the Quran (Q 14:7 and Q 4:59) to stress the importance of being grateful and obedient to those in au...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Farsi
Date Range:
29 Oct 1898-20 Nov 1899
Extent:
1 poster

82. Mss Eur G45/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/10
Title:
‘My Scrap Book volume V’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)
Scope & Content:
Genre & Subject Matter As well as four photographs, stamps, seals, printed documents, handwritten texts, maps and letters, this album contains fifty-one pencil, watercolour or pen and ink drawings; eight created while Augustus Fortunatis Bellasis was Collector and Magistrate at Hyderabad (S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:

135 folios, including 111 items (4 letters; 5 folios of seals; 1 folio of stamps; 1 printed document; 5 folios of watercolour illustrations of tiles; 1 tracing of a pattern for embroidery; 2 watercolour architectural illustrations of decorated doorways; 4 photographs; 2 handwritten texts; 51 watercolour, pencil or pen and ink drawings; 4 maps, printed; 31 etchings) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume