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1. IOR/R/15/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1
Title:
Vol 1 Letters inward and outward
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters sent from and received at the East India Company's Bushire Residency from the establishment of the settlement in early 1763 until late 1788. The letters are mostly between the Residency and the Agency in Basra or the Presidency at Bombay, but there are several letters fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1763-6 Dec 1788
Extent:
2 volumes in one slipcase (453 items (249 folios))

2. IOR/R/15/5/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/56
Title:
File XX/5 Botanical information about Koweit.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence of the Political Agent, Kuwait concerning botanical matters. The form Koweit is generally used in the papers. Folios 4-5 contain correspondence dated 1905 between the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) and the (Acting) Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1905-11 Mar 1915
Extent:
1 file (80 folios)

3. Mss Eur F126/64

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/64
Title:
Papers relating to Pelly's expedition to Riyadh, including a draft of a talk given by him to the Royal Geographical Society
Scope & Content:
The papers relate primarily to the Royal Geographical Society who published Pelly's account of his journey to Riyadh and invited him to submit a talk to be read on his behalf at a Society event. There is also correspondence relating to the botanical specimens collected during the expedition an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1866
Extent:

1 file, 7 items (12 folios)

4. Or 6429

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6429
Title:
al-Jāmiʿ li-quwá al-adwiyah wa-al-aghdhiyah الجامع لقوى الأدوية والأغذية Ibn al-Bayṭār, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ابن البيطار، عبد الله بن أحمد
Scope & Content:
The most influential and important Arabic handbook of materia medica, written by the Andalusian botanist Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʻAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad (ضياء الدين أبو محمد عبد الله بن أحمد; d. 1248), known as Ibn al-Bayṭār (ابن البيطار), Chief Herbalist (رئيس العشابين) to the Ayyubid sultan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
Early 15th century
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+380+i