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Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 7892 Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 7892

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Add MS 7892
Title:
[Mecmua of texts by Mustafa İbn-i Ali Muvakkıt of Sultan Selim Camii]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following four texts : (I) ff 1v-26v : Teshilü'l-mikat, an astronomical treatise by Mustafa İbn-i Ali, Muvakkıt of Sultan Selim Camii, on the sinuated quadrant (rub'-i mücip) and its use, consisting of a Mukaddime and twenty-five ebvap ; (II) ff 26v-39r : Kifayetü'l-v...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
4 texts, 70 ff

2. Add MS 78920-78922

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Add MS 78920-78922
Title:
SUPPLEMENTARY C. E. WRIGHT PAPERS. Papers of Cyril Ernest Wright (b.1907, d.1980), Deputy Keeper, Department of Manuscripts, British Museum 1955-1972 (Senior Deputy Keeper from 1961), relating to Edward Blore (b.1787, d.1879), architect; 1948-1970, n.d. The main body of the C.E. Wright Papers can be found at Add. 70677-70703. Drawings and designs by Blore, to which much of this collection refers, can be found at Add. 42000-42047, while Blore correspondence can be found at Add. 34569-34580...
Scope & Content:
Cyril Ernest Wright, of Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Papers relating to Add. 42000-42047 of Cyril Ernest Wright: 1948-1970, n.d. Edward Blore, architect and artist: Cyril Ernest Wright, of Department of Manuscripts, British Museum: Papers of Cyril Ernest Wright relating to Edward ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1948-1970
Extent:
3 items

3. Add MS 78923-78932

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Add MS 78923-78932
Title:
DIARIES OF JOHN STEWART BUIST (b.1904, d.1982), as Foreign Editor of 'The Times'; 1959-1964
Scope & Content:
Buist was born in 1904 at Woodgaven, Fife and read Russian and German at Glasgow University. In the 1930s he worked on the Dundee 'Courier' and 'Evening Telegraph' and the 'Glasgow Herald'. During the Second World War he was an intelligence officer for the 51st Division (1940-1941) and was lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1959-1964
Extent:
10 items