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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

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

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

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, index
Title:: Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views.
Scope & Content:: Bombay Geographical Society. Index to the First Seventeen Volumes of the Society's Transactions. With Catalogue of the Library, and Catalogue of Charts, Maps, Sketches, and Views. Publication details: Printed for the Society by Ballantyne and Co., Paul's Work, Edinburgh, 1866.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836-1864
Extent:: 1 volume (339 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 1
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from 1836 to 1838. Reprinted from the Edition Originally Issued. Edited by the Secretary. Volume I.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from 1836 to 1838. Reprinted from the Edition Originally Issued. Edited by the Secretary. Volume I. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the American Mission Press, by T Graham, 1844.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1836-1838
Extent:: 1 volume (422 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 2
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, August 1838 to May 1839. Edited by the Secretary. Volume II.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, August 1838 to May 1839. Edited by the Secretary. Volume II. Publication details: none. With illustrations.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1838-1839
Extent:: 1 volume (343 pages)

Reference (shelfmark):: ST 393, vol 3
Title:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from June 1839 to February 1840. Edited by the Secretary. Volume III.
Scope & Content:: Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from June 1839 to February 1840. Edited by the Secretary. Volume III. Publication details: Bombay: Printed at the American Mission Press, by E A Webster, 1840. Illustration: sketch of Captain Hart's route to Hinglaj.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1839-1840
Extent:: 1 volume (207 pages)

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