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51. IO Islamic 1514

Reference (shelfmark):
IO Islamic 1514
Title:
Anonymous treatise on the construction of the astrolabe and Kitāb al-mujmal fī aḥkām al-nujūm كتاب المجمل في أحكام النجوم Kūshyār كوشيار
Scope & Content:
Composite volume containing two texts on the manufacture of the astrolabe and on astrology. The first text was copied in the middle of Jumādá I 1056/end of June 1646, while the second was completed on 18 Shawwāl 1061/4 October 1651 by the scribe Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan Bīk Munajjim, '...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
Jumādá I 1056-18 Shawwāl 1061
Extent:

Codex; ff. iii+1+i+31+iii

52. IO Islamic 1514, ff 2v-9r

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

53. IO Islamic 2171

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

54. IO Islamic 2171, ff 1r-365v

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

55. 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

56. 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

57. 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

58. IOR/F/4/1880/79880

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1880/79880
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Abolition of the Slave Trade in the Principal ports of-’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to attempts by the Government of Bombay to suppress the trade in enslaved ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, Marathi, and Persian
Date Range:
23 Sep 1837-28 Feb 1841
Extent:

1 item (150 folios)

59. IOR/F/4/2504/142198

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2504/142198
Title:
‘Persian Gulf Relative to the conduct of Nakodah and crew of a Boat belonging to the port of Bushire-’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 January 1853, and found at IOR/F/4/2504/142185. Further enclosures to the letter can be found at: I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
5 Jul 1852-11 Jan 1853
Extent:
1 item (15 folios)

60. IOR/F/4/2634/167145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2634/167145
Title:
‘Bagdad. Memoir on the province of – by Commander F. Jones of the Indian Navy, and Surveyor in Mesopotamia.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Political Letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 13 October 1855. The enclosures are dated 5 October 1854-5 October 1855. The corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
5 Oct 1854-13 Oct 1855
Extent:
1 item (124 folios)

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