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Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r
Title:: Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe [رساله در صنعت اسطرلاب]
Scope & Content:: A short anonymous treatise (مختصر) in Persian on the construction and operation of the astrolabe, in twenty sections (bābs). The copy is extensively provided with diagrams and tables illustrating the instrument's stages of manufacture. The text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056 (end of ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Farsi and Persian
Date Range:: Mid Jumādá I 1056
Extent:: Ff. 2v-9r

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171
Title:: Baḥr al-jawāhir بحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف and Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:: (1) al-Harawī (الهروي), Baḥr al-jawāhir (بحر الجواهر, ff. 1r-365v); (2) Two lists of weights and measures (ff. 366r-368v)
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1096
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+369+i

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v
Title:: Baḥr al-jawāhirبحر الجواهر al-Harawī, Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf الهروي، محمد بن يوسف
Scope & Content:: An alphabetically-arranged medical dictionary in Arabic and Persian. The work was compiled from multiple source texts enumerated on f. 2r, lines 1-4 and including the Canon of Medicine (القانون في الطبّ) by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1096
Extent:: Ff. 1r-365v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
Title:: Two lists of weights and measures
Scope & Content:: Names and definitions of various weights and measures, following Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, 980-1037; ff. 366r-366v, line 1). This is followed by a similar list, alphabetically arranged and taken from a text...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Ff. 366r-368v

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 4419
Title:: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين and Risālat mukhtaṣarah shāmilah kayfīyat inshāʾ al-jadwal wa-istikhrāj aʿmālihi رسالة مختصرة شاملة كيفية إنشاء الجدول واستخراج أعماله
Scope & Content:: Two treatises on the construction and use of astronomical instruments. The manuscript was copied at Hyderabad Deccan in 1066/1656 for Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. 1083/1672-3), later known by the honorific title Diyānat Khān (ديانت خان,...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 18 Ramadan 1066-2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
Extent:: Codex; ff. iii+106+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v
Title:: Mukhtaṣar fī ṣanʿat baʿḍ al-ālāt al-raṣadīyah wa-al-ʿamal bihā مختصر في صنعة بعض الآلات الرصدية والعمل بها Birjandī, ʻAbd al-ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn برجندي، عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the construction and use of over twenty astronomical instruments by ‘Abd al-‘Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-Bīrjandī (عبد العلي بن محمد بن حسين البيرجندي, d. 923/1525 or 26). At the end of the text, al-Bīrjandī explains that he took the descriptions of the construction and use of all...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 2 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 1066
Extent:: Ff. 1r-59v

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/391, ff 382-731
Title:: Affairs in India and Elsewhere
Scope & Content:: This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay's Secret Department to the East India Company's Secret Committee, Number 8 of 1841, dated 31 January 1841. The enclosures are dated 2 November 1840 to 1 February 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Farsi, Gujarati, and Marathi
Date Range:: 31 Jan 1841
Extent:: 1 item (350 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/480
Title:: ‘ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY’, Vol 118
Scope & Content:: The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee. The volume is divided into twenty-six items. Sind [Sindh] Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 3-16) Persia [Iran] Affairs (IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 17-31) Aden A...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:: 14 Jan 1854-28 Apr 1854
Extent:: 1 volume (570 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 43-92
Title:: Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1854, dated 28 January 1854. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 1 December 1853. The papers relate to diplomacy concerning overtu...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:: 28 Jan 1854
Extent:: 1 item (50 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/480, ff 93-109
Title:: Baghdad and Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 5 of 1854, dated 28 January 1854. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 December 1853. The papers relate to affairs in Baghdad and Tur...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Farsi
Date Range:: 28 Jan 1854
Extent:: 1 item (17 folios)

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