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42. IO Islamic 2171, ff 366r-368v
- 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
43. IO Islamic 4419
- 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
44. IO Islamic 4419, ff 1r-59v
- 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
45. IOR/L/PS/5/391, ff 382-731
- 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)
46. IOR/L/PS/9/76/192
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/192
- Title:
- Letter from Sulayman Pasha to Harford Jones
- Scope & Content:
- English and Farsi copies of a note from Suleiman Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], received by Jones on 20 October 1801. The Pashaw dismisses accusations against Jones (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/163) as groundless and affirms renewed trus...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English and Farsi
- Date Range:
- c 20 Oct 1801
- Extent:
- 1 item (1 folio)
47. IOR/L/PS/9/76/193
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/193
- Title:
- Letter from Sulayman Pasha to David Scott
- Scope & Content:
- A letter in Farsi from the Pasha of Bagdad [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] to David Scott, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The letter expresses friendship, acknowledges receipt of a letter, and forwards various correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English and Farsi
- Date Range:
- c 1801
- Extent:
- 1 item (1 folio)
48. IOR/L/PS/9/76/300
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/300
- Title:
- Letter to Ali Pasha
- Scope & Content:
- A letter in Farsi to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] concerning Mahomed Nejeeb Beg [Muḥammad Najīb Beg], Mussaleem [Mutasallim, Governor] of Bussora [Basra]. The letter was copied on behalf of Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Farsi
- Date Range:
- c 1803
- Extent:
- 1 item (1 folio)
49. IOR/L/PS/9/76/301
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/301
- Title:
- Letter from Ali Pasha to Samuel Manesty
- Scope & Content:
- A letter in Farsi from the Basha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra] accompanying gifts from the Basha to Manesty, received on 12 June 1803 (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Farsi
- Date Range:
- 1803
- Extent:
- 1 item (1 folio)
50. IOR/L/PS/9/76/303
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/303
- Title:
- Letter from Ali Pasha to Samuel Manesty
- Scope & Content:
- A letter in Farsi from the Basha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], received on 17 June 1803.The letter concerns the detention of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor in Bussora (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299). An English version of thi...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Farsi
- Date Range:
- 1803
- Extent:
- 1 item (1 folio)
