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2. Add MS 7492
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7492
- Title:
- Four treatises on astronomy and calendrics
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: (1) Sharḥ mukhtaṣar fī maʿrifat al-taqāwīm (شرح مختصر في معرفة التقاويم, ff. 1r-48r); (2) Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni (در يافتن أول سال سرياني, f. 48v); (3) Anonymous treatise on the calculation of days and months (ff. 49v-52r); (4) al-Abharī (الأبهري), al-Zīj al-shāmil (الزيج ا...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 25 Dhū al-Qaʿdah 912
- Extent:
-
Codex; ii+1+i+47+iii+20+iii
3. Add MS 7492, f 48v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 7492, f 48v
- Title:
- Dar yāftan-i avval-i sāl-i suryāni در يافتن أول سال سرياني
- Scope & Content:
- Anonymous short text in Ottoman Turkish on calculating the first day of each month in the Byzantine (rūmī), here called Syriac (suryānī), calendar year, accompanied by a summarising table. The only section in the present volume not written in Arabic, the text nevertheless covers similar conten...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 16th century
- Extent:
-
F. 48v
4. Add MS 20736
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 20736
- Title:
- Two treatises on horsemanship
- Scope & Content:
- Originally copied as an Arabic treatise on horsemanship, arms and military skills. The treatise is generously illustrated as far as f. 36v, after which only sporadic illustrations were added to the many remaining spaces. Most of the remaining blank spaces were subsequently utilised for the tran...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- ca 16th century
- Extent:
-
Codex; ff. iii+97+iv
5. IOR/G/29/24
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/G/29/24
- Title:
- Letters and Enclosures on Persia received from Bassora, 1799-1811
- Scope & Content:
- Originals and duplicates of correspondence, comprising secret letters, excerpts of reports, schedules, translated letters and transcripts in original languages (Ottoman Turkish and French), in 331 enclosures received from Bassora [Basra, Iraq] and addressed to the Secret Department. Papers relate...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Arabic, English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 13 Jan 1799-18 Dec 1811
- Extent:
- 1 volume (767 folios)
6. IOR/L/PS/5/376
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/376
- Title:
- 'ENCLOSURES SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY' Vol 14
- Scope & Content:
- The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee. The volume is divided into seventeen items: Afghanistan Affairs (ff 2-33) Intelligence Reports ('Newsletters') (ff 34-42) Memorandum of Int...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 11 Mar 1839-31 Jul 1839
- Extent:
- 1 volume (700 folios)
7. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 606-659
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 606-659
- Title:
- Persian Gulf Affairs
- Scope & Content:
- This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 31 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai]. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2. The abstract of contents is followed by des...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 20 Jul 1839-31 Jul 1839
- Extent:
- 1 item (53 folios)
8. IOR/L/PS/9/76/142
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/142
- Title:
- Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
- Scope & Content:
- A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 1 January 1801. The letter concerns Elgin’s grant of a Birat [commission] to Morad (also known as Mordechai) Coen, a Jewish merchant in Bagdad, and...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 1 Jan 1801
- Extent:
- 1 item (5 folios)
9. IOR/L/PS/10/12
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/12
- Title:
- File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its constru...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 1901-1908
- Extent:
- 1 volume (242 folios)
10. IOR/L/PS/10/551
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/551
- Title:
- File 1740/1915 Pt 1-2 'Arabia: Policy in Hadramaut, Yemen'
- Scope & Content:
- This volume contains correspondence and other papers relating to British policy in connection with the Hadramaut (also written Hadhramut and Hadhramaut). The correspondence covers internal affairs, relations with tribal leaders, activities of the Turks and the Imam of Yemen, boundary questions,...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English and Turkish, Ottoman
- Date Range:
- 10 May 1915-18 Jul 1919
- Extent:
-
1 volume (419 folios)
