Hand-made paper; black & red ink; cover: wood boards & brown leather, metal booses, clasp missing. Extent: 334 ff. Size and dimensions of original material: 32x21 cm. Condition of original material: Very bad: repaired with glue which caused massive attack of insects; ink corrosion; ca...
Formularium in instrumentorum ad usum Curiae Romanae.
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Hand-written marginal notes; cover: wood boards in light brown decoratively tooled leather, metal clasps, straps missing, title hand-written on spine with black ink and also on the front cover. On the first page of the text dedication: Fratrum minorum Jerosolimitanorum Aleppi. Extent: 223 ff. ...
An ahdname or treaty between England and the Ottoman Empire concluded in the middle of the month of Jumādá al-Ukhrá 1086 AH (September 1675). The text opens with the following preamble: Balası hatt Humayün şevkatımkurun ile ma'nu muveşşah Ingiltere kıralı tarafına ca'ib Devlet-i Aliye-yi ebdu'l...
This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume IV, Northern Mesopotamia and Central Kurdistan (Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, April, 1917), covering Mesopotamia north of the line joining Rowanduz, Mosul, Meskeneh [Maskanah], and Aleppo, up to Van, Bitlis, Diarbekr, and Mar‘ash. The...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Secret Committee
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Two letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company]. The first letter, dated 26 May 1783, covers the transit of overland...
PZ 2246/1932 'Communications between London and the Middle East'
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The file contains papers relating to communications between London and the Middle East. It mainly consists of copies of correspondence sent to the India Office from the Foreign Office. This largely consists of copies of correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Br...
The file contains papers relating to relations between Iraq and Syria, specifically: the ‘Bon-Voisinage’ Agreement between the two countries signed on 24 April 1937; and the Government of Iraq opening a Consulate in Aleppo [in Syria]. The papers are mostly letters to the Secretary of State for ...
This volume is a letter book which is comprised of contemporaneous copies of letters received at the Residency at Bushire between 1779 and 1787. Most of the letters are from East India Company officials at Bussora [Basra] and Bombay. Many of the letters from Bombay also include enclosed letters ...