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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/W/L/PS/10/12 (ii)
Title:: Damascus-Mekka Railway
Scope & Content:: A printed map of the Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Mekka [Mecca]. The map is a copy of an original that was produced by Hajji Mukhtar Bey, Technical Adviser of the Hejaz Railway, and compiled by Captain (Artillery) Eumer Zekki and Lieutenant Hassan Muin, in the Printing Works of the Ottoman Min...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1904
Extent:: 1 map

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9454
Title:: Kitāb al-waḍīḥ fī maʿrifat ʿilm al-ramy كتاب الوضيح في معرفة علم الرمي [Ṭabarī,ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad طبري، عبد الرحمن أحمد]
Scope & Content:: Luxury copy of a practical treatise on archery, very popular and widely-used especially in the Mamluk period, by Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī (أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن أحمد الطبري, active ca 9th century). The present copy was completed by an un-named scribe on 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 78...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 9 Dhū al-Ḥijjah 780
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+88+iii; Detached binding: +ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 11247
Title:: Risālat al-shifāʾ li-adwāʾ al-wabāʾ رسالة الشفاء لأدواء الوباء Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah, Aḥmad ibn Muṣṭafá طاشكبريزاده، أحمد بن مصطفى
Scope & Content:: Treatise on the prevention and cure of plague by the Ottoman polymath ʿIṣām al-Dīn Abū al-Khayr Aḥmad ibn Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafá Ṭāshkubrīʹzādah (عصام الدين أبو الخير أحمد بن مصلح الدين مصطفى طاشكبريزاده, Taşköprīzāde, d. 1561). The text is divided into the following sections, of which all but t...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+74+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006
Title:: Compendium of alchemical treatises in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman
Scope & Content:: The volume comprises two manuscripts. The first (ff. 3-112) was the notebook of Qudrat Allāh al-Marandī al-Ādharī, who copied into it thirteen alchemical texts between 919 AH/AD 1513 and 925 AH/AD 1519, first at Fez and then at Damascus (see colophons on ff. 11r, 14r, 57r and 66r). The second (f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Farsi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 919-1177
Extent:: Codex; ff. 159+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 13006, f 112v
Title:: Cancelled page of Ottoman alchemical poetry Anonymous
Scope & Content:: A page of anonymous alchemical poetry in Ottoman Turkish, which has been struck through and cancelled. Its catchword does not match the first word of the following folio. Begins (f. 112v, lines 2-3): گل ای نجم سعادت آفتابی ° اِشِت گل كيبی بو نازک جوابی ندندر سيم وزريا علم كميا ° قوپر هر قطردن...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: c 930
Extent:: f. 112v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 14365
Title:: [Ruzname]
Scope & Content:: A vellum scroll containing an Ottoman illuminated calligraphic almanac. Manuscripts on vellum from Turkey are relatively rare. The almanac contains a Ġurrẹnāmẹ, indicating the first day of each lunar month, and tables indicating the times of the five daily prayers as calculated for the Istanbul ...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: mid 19th century
Extent:: Scroll

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