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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/397
Title:: A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations
Scope & Content:: The volume is A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations, by John Richardson, of the Middle Temple and Wadham College, Oxford. Revised and improved by Charles Wilkins. This new edition has been enlarged by Francis ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1829
Extent:: 1 volume (909 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/16
Title:: 'Political'
Scope & Content:: This file consists of exchanges to do with events and personalities in or around Gwadur [Gwadar] on the Makran Coast of Baluchistan. The file includes a list of important personalities in Oman, and the 1882 administration report and trade returns. The end of the file consists of an extensive bio...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1 Aug 1882-1 Dec 1884
Extent:: 1 file (134 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/126
Title:: File 3/8 Books etc: Transliteration of vernacular names and places.
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Muscat, concerning the transliteration of personal and place names in India and the Persian Gulf. The papers were compiled in response to requests from the Government of India for standardisation in the translation of vernacular names. The paper...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Pashto, and Persian
Date Range:: 25 Mar 1903-10 Dec 1932
Extent:: 1 file (81 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/332
Title:: ‘X. PASSPORTS AND PROTECTION. A. PASSPORTS. (1) Persian passports regulations effecting Muscat subjects.’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence related to the Iranian Government’s order known as the Tehran order, on treating people arriving at Persian ports from Bahrain, Muscat, Dubai and Oman as Persian subjects. The file also includes petitions raised by Muscat subjects whose passports were seized by t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 14 Oct 1928-15 Jun 1929
Extent:: 1 file (54 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/3116
Title:: Persian Plan of the Town and Fortifications of Bushire, previous to the bombardment by the British in 1856
Scope & Content:: Distinctive Features: Labelled for reference. Includes two sections in the right margin and a descriptive note in the bottom right-hand corner of sheet. Inscriptions: Signed by Felix Jones, British Political Resident in the Gulf of Persia, and Political Agent to the Persian Expeditionary For...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 map

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur D922/1
Title:: An Account of a Journey in Kashmir by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Letters from Emily Overend Lorimer to her Parents sent from Bahrain and Kerman
Scope & Content:: This file consists of two separate physical files as follows: 1) An account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army. His account is entitled 'Three Months of Privilege Leave'. It contains his observations on the languages, peoples, trans...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1898-1914
Extent:: 2 files (630 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/66
Title:: Notes and Correspondence Regarding Persia
Scope & Content:: This file consists mainly of notes by George Nathaniel Curzon on matters relating to Persia. Most of the notes are written on various kinds of headed paper, with the most abundant being those of the India Office, the Foreign Office, the House of Commons and the Carlton Club, Whitehall. Some of t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: c 1892-c 1898
Extent:: 1 file (84 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/66, f 96
Title:: Photograph of Sultan Massoud Mirza Qajar Zelle Soltan [Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan]
Scope & Content:: Photograph of Sultan Massoud Mirza Qajar Zelle Soltan [Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan] a Persian prince of the Qajar Dynasty and Governor of Esfahan [Isfahan]. A seal is inscribed below the photograph, and the subject's name is written below the photograph in Persian and on the reverse of the phot...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1890s
Extent:: 1 photograph

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/361
Title:: A Ceremonial Illuminated Letter in Persian and a Kharita
Scope & Content:: The file contains two letters (f 1 and ff 2-4), a paper envelope (f 5), and a two piece pouch envelope (un-foliated). The first letter (f 1) is referred to as khat (standard letter). The letter is a personal one and it is sent by Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (1880-1901) to Lord Geo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 11 Aug 1895-23 Jan 1899
Extent:: 1 file (5 folios and a two piece pouch envelope)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/361, f 1
Title:: A Ceremonial Illuminated Letter
Scope & Content:: The item includes a letter (f 1), which is referred to as khat (standard letter). The letter is a personal one and it is sent by Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (1880-1901) to Lord George Nathaniel Curzon. It is dated 19 Safar 1313 which is given as 11 August 1895. In the letter, the ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1895
Extent:: 1 letter (1 folio)

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