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11. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/1
Title:
Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1916'
Scope & Content:
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division: August 1916). It is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia. The volume includes a note on official use, title page and ''No...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

12. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/41/2
Title:
Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
Scope & Content:
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 volume (282 folios)

13. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/52
Title:
Vocabularies: English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, Syriac'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains vocabularies for the following languages: English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, and Syriac. It was published in London and was compiled by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office during the First World War...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1917
Extent:

1 volume (90 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1
Title:
''A HANDBOOK OF MESOPOTAMIA VOLUME 1 GENERAL''
Scope & Content:
This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Aug 1916
Extent:

1 volume (367 folios)

15. Or 5932

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5932
Title:
Codex
Scope & Content:
A miscellany of poems and prose in Kurdish, Persian, Arabic and Ottoman Turkish. 1r : Graffiti in Arabic and small ownership seal in top left corner. ff. 1v-8r : A collection of ghazals in Persian. The text is written in Naskh hand in black ink, with titles and marginalia in red. It has occa...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 codex, 97 ff

16. Or 6444

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6444
Title:
Gorani Anthology
Scope & Content:
A poetical anthology in oblong safīna format. The anthology contains 370 poems by various authors, including Shaykh Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá, Mawlānā Ḥāfiẓ Farhād and Ḥasan. ff. 1-8r : A masnavi poem about the Prophet Muhammad and the four first Caliphs in Persian. ff. 8v-54v : A collection of poet...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, and Persian
Date Range:
1197-98
Extent:
1 codex, 84 ff

17. Or 8208

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8208
Title:
Sayf al-Mulūk - سيف الملوك
Scope & Content:
A masnavi poem entitled Sayf al-Mulūk, composed by Muḥammad Jawād Siyāh-pūsh, who died 1246AH (1830-31 CE). The manuscript is incomplete and damaged, with numerous pages missing parts of their contents. The manuscript text appears to be in a dialect of Kurmanji Kurdish written in fully-vocaliz...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, and Persian
Date Range:
1286
Extent:
1 text, 63 ff

18. Or 8567

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8567
Title:
[Risālah fi’l-lughat al-turkiyah] - [رسالة في اللغة التركية]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an Arabic-Ottoman Turkish vocabulary compiled, with an introduction in Arabic, by Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ. In the vocabulary, which is divided into a preface, 4 rukun and a hatime (f 3r), the Ottoman Turkish has not been inserted in the text after f 7r. The fact that the author has...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
2 texts, 33 ff

19. Or 11996

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11996
Title:
Mam û Zîn - مام و زین
Scope & Content:
The Kurdish national epic Mam û Zîn, originally composed by Ehmed Xanî. A masnavi poem on themes of love. The manuscript has been foliated to begin from f. 3v, the start of the masnavi. Folios 1r-3r contain couplets and various graffiti in nastaliq, some of them dated from 1225 AH (1810-11 CE),...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Kurdish and Persian
Date Range:
1221
Extent:
1 text, 108 ff

20. Or 12638

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 12638
Title:
A collection of mas̲navīs
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Kurdish and Persian
Date Range:
1800-1899
Extent:
113 ff