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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Meteorology Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 9599, ff 204r-227v
Title:
al-Durrah al-nūrānīyah fī istikhrāj yawāqīt al-qaṣīdah al-Buṣīrīyah الدرة النورانية في استخراج يواقيت القصيدة البصيرية Anṭākī, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm أنطاكي، علي بن إبراهيم
Scope & Content:
Treatise in eighteen chapters (باب) written in 760/1358-9 by Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Idrīs ibn Yaʻqūb al-Yaʻqūbī al-Anṭākī (أبو الحسن علي بن إبراهيم بن إدريس بن يعقوب اليعقوبي الأنطاكي, see ff. 204r, lines 2-3 and 204v, lines 11-12) on interpreting the portents of celestial and meteoro...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:

Ff. 204r-227v

2. Add MS 16659, ff 368v-369v

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 16659, ff 368v-369v
Title:
Risālah fī dhikr asbāb al-raʿd wa-al-barq رسالة في ذكر أسباب الرعد والبرق Theophrastus ثيوفراسط
Scope & Content:
Extract on the causes of thunder and lightning from the work on meteorology by Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος, ثيوفراسط, d. ca 287 BC) commonly, as here, misattributed to Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh (أبو علي الحسين بن عبد الله), known as Ibn Sīnā (ابن سينا, latinised as Avicenna, d. 1037, see Gu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1182
Extent:

Ff. 368v-369v

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/15
Title:
A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919
Scope & Content:
Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor, Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).' 'Contents. Chapters: I. Bound...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:
1 volume (365 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/17
Title:
A handbook of Turkey in Europe (London: Intelligence Division, Admiralty; 1917)
Scope & Content:
Copy of 'A handbook of Turkey in Europe, prepared on behalf of the Admiralty, Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, January 1917.' The volume contains thirteen photographic plates (folios 99-106) and a map (folio 171). Contents (folio 6): Section I I. Boundaries and Physical Features, p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917
Extent:

1 volume (170 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1004

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1004
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 16 'Persian Gulf: Oil Bahrain. Calibration of Tanks and measurement of oil.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the calibration and measurement of the oil storage tanks of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited in order to assess royalties due to the lessors. Included in the file is a technical plan: 'Diagram of Sit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934-1942
Extent:
1 file (177 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1005

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1005
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 17 'Persian Gulf: oil; tables of quantities produced by Bahrain Petroleum Co Ltd'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises tables of the capacities of the storage tanks of the Bahrein [Bahrain] Petroleum Company Limited. The tables were compiled by B and R Redwood, Petroleum Inspection Department in August 1934.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934
Extent:
1 volume (43 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/20
Title:
Seistan. Revenue Report and Notes of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume I.
Scope & Content:
The first volume of reports produced by the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Publication statement: Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906. The commission, under the direction of Colonel Arthur Henry M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 volume (176 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/23
Title:
Seistan. Revenue Report and Notes of the Perso-Afghan Arbitration Commission, 1902-1905. Volume II. Part V - Appendices and Glossary.
Scope & Content:
The second volume of reports produced by the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, Seistan [Sīstān], and submitted to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Publication statement: Simla: Government of India Foreign Department, 1906. The commission, under the direction of Colonel Arthur Henry ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 volume (186 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1689-1692

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1689-1692
Title:
File 22 Meteorological
Scope & Content:
The meteorological correspondence subject files contain correspondence and papers relating to the set-up and day-to-day operation of the Bahrain meteorological observatory between 1927 and 1948. They also contain meteorological statistical data from the observatory (as well as corresponding mete...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1950
Extent:
4 files (1001 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/384
Title:
Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked confidential, is Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935, prepared by Donald Banks of the Air Ministry, by command of the Air Council. The volume begins with a brief forward (folio 2) in which the geographical scope is outlined. The volume is then divided into nine chapters (I-IX)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936
Extent:

1 volume (120 folios)