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1. Add MS 9690

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Add MS 9690
Title:
Kitāb al-ishārāt fī ʿilm al-ʿibārāt كتاب الإشارات في علم العبارات Ibn Shāhīn, Khalīl ابن شاهين، خليل
Scope & Content:
Manual of dream interpretation in eighty chapters (أبواب) by the mamluk historian Ghars al-Dīn Khalīl ibn Shāhīn al-Ẓāhirī (غرس الدين خليل بن شاهين الظاهري, d. 1468). A list of the chapters with their title and the folio on which they begin is given on ff. 4v-6v On the title page (f. 2r) and on...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+278+ii

2. Add MS 23409

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Add MS 23409
Title:
Kitāb al-‘umdah fī ṣinā‘at al-jirāḥah كتاب العمدة في صناعة الجراحة Ibn al-Quff, Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
Scope & Content:
A general introduction to the the art of surgery by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف; 630/1233-685/1286). The treatise it thought to be the earliest Arabic text devoted to surgery. It comprises twenty chapters (مقالات,...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1052
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+131+iv

3. Add MS 45158 A-C

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Add MS 45158 A-C
Title:
Oblong duodecimo notebooks, map and list of buildings, belonging to Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
Scope & Content:
two volumes of notes, made on a trip from Damascus via Baghdad to Aleppo in 1911 (Add MS 45158 A-B) a map of the locations of villages in western Syria, possibly dating from 1905, and an undated list of buildings for David George Hogarth (Add MS 45158 C)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
3 items (72 folios)

4. IOR/L/MAR

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IOR/L/MAR
Title:
Marine Department Records
Scope & Content:
The records cover most aspects of the organisation and operations of the East India Company's maritime service; the Bombay Marine; the Indian Navy and the Bengal Pilot Service. The commander of each vessel chartered by the East India Company returning or arriving from the East Indies was require...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1600-c 1879
Extent:
c 10,571 volumes

5. Mss Eur A230

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Mss Eur A230
Title:
Shakespear, William Henry Irvine: diary of journey across central Arabia
Scope & Content:
A diary written by Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear recording his journey across Arabia in 1914. The volume consists of: folios 2-14: 'Accounts of Journey into Central Arabia. February, March, April, May 1914': statements of expenses incurred on the journey; folio 19: a note of the altit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 volume (328 folios)

6. Mss Eur B228

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Mss Eur B228
Title:
Sir Arthur Henry Mcmahon papers.
Scope & Content:
This collection of papers consists of two files. The first file (MSS EUR B228/1) contains sixteen letters that were written to Sir Thomas Perrott from Colonel Sir (Arthur) Henry McMahon while he was on service in a number of different locations in British India, primarily in the North West (pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1897-1914
Extent:

2 files (88 folios)

7. Mss Eur C600

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Mss Eur C600
Title:
Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy papers
Scope & Content:
The records consist of three files containing papers of Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy, donated by his widow.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1962
Extent:

3 files (72 folios)

8. Mss Eur D713

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Mss Eur D713
Title:
Sir Arthur Hirtzel papers
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir Arthur Hirtzel (1870-1937), India Office 1894-1930, Permanent Under-Secretary of State 1924-30, relating to India's financial position in 1918, the position of German Christian Missions in India 1918-22, the political situation in India and related topics 1924-29, and the British p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1929
Extent:

7 files

9. Mss Eur D922

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Mss Eur D922
Title:
Papers of Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Emily Overend Lorimer
Scope & Content:
These papers are composed of two files as follows: D 922/1 (which is itself divided into two physical volumes): an account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army (folios 1-262). Copies of letters sent by the linguist, p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1898-1914
Extent:
2 files (668 folios)

10. Mss Eur D1090

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Mss Eur D1090
Title:
Diaries of Sir Arthur Hirtzel (1870-1937), India Office 1894-1930, Private Secretary to Secretary of State 1903-09, Permanent Under-Secretary 1924-30; with Index, and Press Cuttings Volume.
Scope & Content:
This fonds consists of four volumes of diaries of Sir Arthur Hirtzel, an index volume to the diaries, and a volume of related newspaper cuttings (and some other documents). The diaries cover the period 1906-1909, when Hirtzel was Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India, John Morley (Vi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
6 volumes (764 folios)