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8261. Photo 430/84

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 430/84
Title:
Curzon Collection: Views of Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier. Photographer(s): Bird, Robert
Scope & Content:
Collection of 119 loose prints, captioned in pencil on the reverse, relating to Afghanistan. The material can be broken down into three distinct series as follows: Prints 1-7 Views of Kabul taken c. 1880 by an unidentified photographer. Prints 8-52 Series of small platinum prints originally co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880-1904
Extent:
129 items

8262. Photo 496/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/2
Title:
One box of lantern slides - Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
A box of lantern slides containing numbered slides. Although the slides are uncaptioned and there is no accompanying descriptive list, they are duplicates of the prints in Photo 496/6 (see entry for print by print listing). All the views are from Storrs-Fox's tour of the Persian Gulf. Miscellane...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-18
Extent:
43 slides

8263. Photo 496/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/6
Title:
Album of tour of the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views of a tour in the Persian Gulf, including locations such as Mathra, Muscat, Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas], Linga [Lengeh], Bahrein [Bahrain], Bushire [Bushehr], Koweit [Kuwait], Mohammerah [Khorammshahr],...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-18
Extent:
48 b&w silver gelatin prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

8264. Photo 496/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/7
Title:
Album of views in India and the Persian Gulf. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains historical landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views and portraits in British India, including at Bhopal, Karachi, Simla and in the Persian Gulf. Elements: 1 ‘Bhopal: Regatta’ 2 ‘Bhopal: The Yacht Club’ 3 ‘Bhopal: “Sultana”’ 4 ‘Bhopal: “...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-19
Extent:
48 b&w silver gelatin prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

8265. Photo 496/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 496/10
Title:
Album of views in India, the Middle East and Europe. Photographer: Rev. Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains historical landscape, maritime and architectural snapshot views at Udaipur, Mount Abu, Bombay, Aden, Suez Canal, Boulogne, various locations in England, Sialkot, Jammu and Marala [Murala]. Elements: 1 ‘Udaipur: Fateh Sagar.’ 2 ‘Mount Abu: Plains from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-28
Extent:
48 b&w silver gelatin prints bound into a brown, cloth-covered photograph album

8266. Photo 667/4

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 667/4
Title:
Parsons Collection: Album of views of India and South-East Asia by Major General Sir Arthur Edward Broadbent Parsons
Scope & Content:
Full leather bound album measuring 352 x 500 mm, decorated with blind tooling, and with initials 'A.P.' stamped in gold in centre of front cover. The album is numbered '5' on the front cover. The album is enclosed in a card slipcase. Binding by Zaehnsdorf, London. Prints are mounted several to a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1950s-1960s
Extent:
Full leather bound album measuring containing 642 silver gelatin prints mounted several per page and indicated with handwritten captions

8267. Royal MS 16 A VIII

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 16 A VIII
Title:
Taḥrīr kitāb al-majisṭī تحرير كتاب المجسطي Ptolemy بطلميوس Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
The Almagest (كتاب المجسطي), an Arabic version of the Μαθηματικῆς σύνταξις of Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus; c 90-c 168), in the annotated edition (تحرير) of Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي; d. 1274). This was the most influential and enduring astronomic...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
15th-16th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. iv+192+iv

8268. Sloane MS 2696

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 2696
Title:
Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs
Scope & Content:
An anonymous notebook containing texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs, interspersed with notes and a prayer. Divisions of the text: (1) Lughat al-jawhar wa-asmāʾ al-jawāhir wa-manāfiʿhā (كتاب لغة الجوهر واسماء الجواهر ومنافعها, ff.1v-20v); A text enumerating different types of gemsto...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1595-1603
Extent:

Vertical format codex; ff. ii+25+xxi+2+ii

8269. Sloane MS 3032

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3032
Title:
المقالة الثالثة من كتاب جالينوس في حيلة البروء al-Maqālah al-thālithah min Kitāb Jālīnūs fī ḥīlat al-burū’ Jālīnūs جالينوس
Scope & Content:
Arabic version of Book Three of Galen's (جالينوس) De methodo medendi (Θεραπευτικὴ μέθοδος; حيلة البروء). The Arabic translation from the Greek was made by Ḥubaysh ibn al-Ḥasan (حبيش بن الحسن known as Ḥubaysh al-A‘sam [حبيش الأعسم]; AD 9th century), and partially revised by his uncle, Ḥunayn ibn ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. ii+64+ii

8270. Sloane MS 3034

Reference (shelfmark):
Sloane MS 3034
Title:
Maqālah fī istikhrāj irtifā‘ al-quṭb ‘alá ghāyat al-taḥqīq مقالة في استخراج ارتفاع القطب على غاية التحقيق Alhazen ابن الهيثم، الحسن بن الحسن
Scope & Content:
A short treatise describing a geometrical method for precisely determining latitude by Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan known as Ibn al-Haytham (أبو علي الحسن بن الحسن known as ابن الهيثم, d c 1039). The Arabic text is accompanied by a Latin translation produced by Jacobus Golius (1596-1667) in 16...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Latin
Date Range:
2 Feb 1646
Extent:

Codex; ff. xxvii+12+ii

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