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1. Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v
Title:
al-Durrah al-nūrānīyah fī istikhrāj yawāqīt al-qaṣīdah al-Buṣīrīyah الدرة النورانية في استخراج يواقيت القصيدة البصيرية Anṭākī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm أنطاكي، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Treatise in eighteen chapters (باب) written in 760/1358-9 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Idrīs ibn Yaʻqūb al-Yaʻqūbī al-Anṭākī (أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم بن إدريس بن يعقوب اليعقوبي الأنطاكي, see ff. 204r, lines 2-3 and 204v, lines 11-12) on interpreting the portents of celestial and meteoro...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 204r-227v

2. Add MS 16659, ff 368v-369v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 16659, ff 368v-369v
Title:
Risālah fī dhikr asbāb al-raʿd wa-al-barq رسالة في ذكر أسباب الرعد والبرق Theophrastus ثيوفراسط
Scope & Content:
Extract on the causes of thunder and lightning from the work on meteorology by Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος, ثيوفراسط, d. ca 287 BC) commonly, as here, misattributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037, see Gu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Ff. 368v-369v

3. IOR/R/15/2/1689-1692

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IOR/R/15/2/1689-1692
Title:
File 22 Meteorological
Scope & Content:
The meteorological correspondence subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to the set-up and day-to-day operation of the Bahrain meteorological observatory between 1927 and 1948. They also contain meteorological statistical data from the observatory (as well as corresponding mete...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1950
Extent:
4 files (1001 folios)

4. Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v
Title:
Kitāb al-azminah كتاب الأزمنة
Scope & Content:
Collection of calendrical, astronomical, meteorological and medical information along with details about Christian feast days and events in the commercial calendar. The material is arranged by month following the order of the Orthodox liturgical calendar, which begins on 1 Aylūl/September. For a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1000
Extent:

Ff. 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v

5. Or 14293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14293
Title:
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+125