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211. Mss Eur F126/44, f 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/44, f 93
Title:
Letter from the Laskerachee to Reay Moonshee
Scope & Content:
Letter, in Persian and translated into English, regarding Ghoolam Ali [Ghulam 'Ali], an inhabitant of Bushire who had agreed to serve on a steamer for one month in order to travel from Bombay to Bushire to visit his parents, however the Captain of the steamer was refusing to permit him to leave ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
12 Jul 1866
Extent:
1 folio

212. Mss Eur F126/46

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/46
Title:
Letters to Lewis Pelly from local rulers and shaikhs, with translations in English.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in Arabic, mostly with translations in English, from Thuwaini bin Said, Sultan of Muscat; Zayid I bin Khalifah Al-Nahyan, Chief of Abu Dhabi; Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, Ruler of Najd; Majid bin Said Al-Busair, Sultan of Zanzibar; the British native agent at Sharjah, Ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1863-1870
Extent:

1 file, 9 items (17 folios)

213. Mss Eur F126/46, f 6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/46, f 6
Title:
Letter from Farukh Khan, Tehran to Lewis Pelly, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter in Persian, with English translation, from Farukh Khan (a Persian Government Official) thanking Pelly for his letter of friendly greetings following his arrival in Bushire and for the information provided by Pelly about his career and appointment as Political Resident in the Persian Gulf....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
23 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 folio

214. Mss Eur F126/49

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/49
Title:
Memo on the Dashtee tribe
Scope & Content:
The memo contains information in Persian, with English translation, regarding the Dashtee [Dashti] tribe and the villages that are subordinate to it. For the town of Dashtee (folio 8) the memo gives details of the tribute paid to the Governor of Bushire; for each subordinate village the followi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
21 Feb 1863-12 May 1863
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

215. Mss Eur F126/65

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/65
Title:
Miscellaneous Papers relating to Lewis Pelly's Service in the Persian Gulf and India
Scope & Content:
The file contains a private journal kept by Lewis Pelly from January to February 1865; notes taken by him during his journey to Riyadh January to March 1865; sketches, correspondence, financial accounts and other papers. Included within the file are: Extract showing a record of posting from the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1865-c 1873
Extent:

1 file, 2 items (66 folios)

216. Mss Eur F126/101

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/101
Title:
Sketch of the Course of the Shat Ul 'Arab from the Entrance to Mahomerah
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Lithographed in the Office of the Chief Engineer of P.W. by H Essoobyee, and F de Jesus, Bombay, 7 March 1857. Distinctive Features: Below title the note: 'by Captain Felix Jones, Resident Persian Gulf, and Captain M. Green, Sind Horse, constructed while reconnoitring the Enemy's po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
7 Mar 1857
Extent:

1 map

217. Or 1621

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1621
Title:
Tarjumah-ʼi ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt ترجمۀ عجائب المخلوقات Anonymous translator
Scope & Content:
The ʻAjā’ib al-makhlūqāt (عجائب المخلوقات) by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad Qazwīnī (زكريا بن محمد قزوینی) translated from Arabic into Persian at the request of Ibrāhīm ʻĀdil Shāh, ruler of Bijapur in Shaʻbān AH 954 (1547). The text is illustrated with 461 mid-seventeenth-century Deccani paintings and d...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian
Date Range:
17th and 19th centuries
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+466+ii

218. Or 2361

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361
Title:
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian
Scope & Content:
A collection of fourteen treatises on music theory in Arabic and Persian, copied for Shāh Qubād ibn ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Ḥārithī al-Badakhshī (شاه قباد بن عبد الجليل الحارثي البدخشي, d. Delhi, 1083/1672-3) who by the time of the volume's compilation held the title Dīyānat Khān (ديانتخان). Dīyānat ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:
1073-1075
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+269+iv

219. Or 2361, ff 2r-15r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 2r-15r
Title:
Risālah dar jamʿ-i maqālāt-i fuquhāʾ dar bāb shanīdan-i alḥān رساله در جمع مقالات فقهاء در باب شنيدن الحان Riz̤avī, Muḥammad ibn Jalāl رضوى، محمد ابن جلال
Scope & Content:
A treatise in Persian on the lawfulness of music, written by Muḥammad ibn Jalāl Riz̤avī (محمد بن جلال رضوى), in 1028/1618-19 (f. 2v, line 11). The text, also entitled Risālah-yi dar aqwāl-i fuqahāʼ dar samāʻ-i alḥān (رساله در اقوال فقهاء در سماع الحان, f. 2r), discusses the opinions of the great...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
ca 1073
Extent:

Ff. 2r-15r

220. Or 2361, ff 15r-17v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 2361, ff 15r-17v
Title:
Risālah-'i masīḥī dar kayfīyat va haqīqat-i samāʿ va ibāḥatān رساله مسيحي در كيفيت وحقيقت سماع واباحتان Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, ʿAbd al-Jalīl ابن عبد الرحمن، عبد الجليل
Scope & Content:
A tract in Persian on the lawfulness of sacred music and on terms used by Sufis. It was entitled Masīḥī in honour of the physician and poet Hakīm Sadrā ibn Hakīm Fakhr al-Dīn Shīrazī (حكيم سدرا بن حكيم فخر الدين شيرازي, d. 1061/1650-51), who came to India in c. 1603 and was awarded the title Mas...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Farsi and Persian
Date Range:
17 Ṣafar 1073
Extent:

Ff. 15r-17v

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