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2091. Photo 1228(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(36)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 24.] Ficus or Urostigma religiosa. Peepul, the sacred tree, at Hoshungabad. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a peepul tree beside a stream or pool, probably taken, like print 25, in Webber's compound at Hoshangabad. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'This well known fig with beautiful heart shaped leaves and noble branching head doe...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2092. Photo 1228(37)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(37)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 25.] Ficus or Urostigma indica. Banyan or bungadh tree. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a banyan tree in a forest clearing. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'Called by the natives 'bungadh.' This is the sacred bo tree. Its leaves are large & thicker than the peepul. Its air roots can be trained to take root...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2093. Photo 1228(38)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(38)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 25.] 'Pakur' tree, Urostigma or Ficus infectoria. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a ficus growing on lightly wooded hillside. With additional notes written on the album page beneath the print: 'This noble spreading fig tree is not as common as the peepul or banyan. It is quite as handsome as they are as an ornamental shade producing tree....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2094. Photo 1228(39)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(39)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 27.] 'Gooler,' Urostigma or Ficus racemosa, or Ficus glomerata, mango on right. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a stand of trees in light woodland, with cows and and an Indian figure. With additional note written on album page beneath the print: 'This is a fine fig tree & bears small eatible red figs, of which fish are fond. Its air roots are numerous.'
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2095. Photo 1228(40)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(40)
Title:
[Indian Forest Trees, No. 28.] Phoenix sylvestris, the common palm, Central Provinces. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a stand of palm trees, with the roof of a tiled house visible in the background and an Indian figure seated on a rough wooden animal pen in the left foreground. With additional note written on album page beneath the print: 'The common date palm grows all ove...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2096. Photo 1228(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(45)
Title:
The Forest Office at Puchmari [Pachmarhi]. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of forestry officers posed in front of a tent. The senior figure at a folding desk with papers, is identified as 'Peddi Naido Baboo.' Beside him stands a man identified as 'Ameen Oodeen,' with 'Kunta Pershad' seated on the ground writing. Other figures...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870
Extent:
1 item

2097. Photo 1228(57)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(57)
Title:
T. W. Webber Forest Surveyor NWP. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length carte de visite portrait, holding a rifle and standing against a rocky background. Thomas Wingfield Webber (1836-1914), the compiler and principal photographer of the album in which this portrait appears, came to India in 1860 and was originally employed ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865-1870
Extent:
1 item

2098. Photo 1228(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1228(60)
Title:
T. Webber, Taij Sing, Sirdar Khan. Photographer: Webber, Thomas Wingfield
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Stereo half. Portrait of Thomas Wingfield Webber and two Indian servants.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1865-1870
Extent:
1 item

2099. Photo 1300(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1300(1)
Title:
Portrait of Alexander Cunningham. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Three-quarter length portrait, seated outdoors and looking to the right, of Sir Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893). Cunningham served as an engineer in the Indian Army from 1833-61. On his retirement, he was appointed Archaeological Surveyor to the Government of India from 1861 until the abolition...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

2100. Royal MS 7 D II

Reference (shelfmark):
Royal MS 7 D II
Title:
Theological miscellany including the Liber de Philosophia Salomonis; Extract from Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae; Fulgentius Mythographus, Expositio sermonum antiquorum; Pigments and alchemical recipes; Several comments on ecclesiastical questions; De singularitate clericorum; Commentaries from various sources on the Lord's prayer; Responsio ad amicum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 3r-9v: Anonymous, Liber de Philosophia Salomonis (On the Philosophy of Solomon), a compilation on the divisions of philosophy, including three different systems of classification, beginning with an extract of the prologue of Origen's commentary on the Canticle of Canticles relate...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

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