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al-Qānūn al-waḍīḥ fī ‘ilm al-bayzarah القانون الواضح في علم البيزرة Waṭwāṭ, وطواط
Scope & Content:
Treatise on falconry focussing on the health and treatment of birds of prey attributed on the cover page (f. 1r) to al-Waṭwāṭ (الوطواط), presumably Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yaḥyá (محمد بن إبراهيم بن يحى, d. 1318) the Mamluk bookseller and author of the encyclopedia of natural history Mab...
Tuḥfat al-Fuḥūl fī tamhīd al-uṣūl fī ‘ilm al-biḥār تحفة الفحول في تمهيد الأصول في علم البحار Mahrī, Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad مهري، سليمان بن أحمد
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A manual on the principles of navigational theory by Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Sulaymān al-Mahrī (سليمان بن أحمد بن سليمان المهري, fl. 16th century), here called al-Muḥammadī (المحمدي), an Indian Ocean navigator from the city of al-Shiḥr (الشحر), Yemen. The treatise is arranged in seven parts (أبوا...
'Lord and Lady Curzon and Staff on the Tour [of the Persian Gulf].' Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: Group portrait photograph taken on board ship in November 1903, during Lord and Lady Curzon’s Tour of the Persian Gulf. Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925) and Lady Mary Victoria Curzon (1870-1906) sit at centre and immediately right ...
'R.I.M.S. Hardinge accompanying Ships of the Royal East Indian Squadron.' Photographer: Unknown
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Genre/Subject Matter: View showing R.I.M.S. Hardinge (at centre) accompanying ships of the Royal East Indian squadron on Lord Curzon's tour of the Persian Gulf in November 1903. At least seven craft – some steamers and at least one sailing boat – are visible along the horizon line. The precise ...
'South Persia'. Photographer: Lt. A. A. Crookshank (Curzon Collection)
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Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of South Persia and the Persian Gulf coastline. The photos are presented initially by location (Muscat, Jask, Bandar Abbás, Niríz, Yezd, Isfahan to Shiráz Road, Pasargadae, Naksh-i-Rustam, Naksh-i-Rajab, Persepolis, Shir...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1900-15 Apr 1902
Extent:
119 b&w photographs bound into a maroon and red half leather album
'[Muscat] Town and Bay. 31st Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter General view over the town out towards the harbour, from the south-west, looking north-east. Several-storeyed white-washed buildings can be seen in the fore- and middleground. To the far left, two apparently fortified towers can be seen on the foothills of the ridge at left...
'[Muscat] The Town looking North. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter General view from the outskirts of the town (likely present-day Mutrah) to the harbour and promontory fort, from an elevated position, looking north-northeast. The area of the town and coastline visible in the distant middleground is the part of the town featured in the pre...
'[Muscat] British Consulate. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter View from the shoreline of the British Consulate at Muscat, looking due west. The consulate is a pale-stoned, two or three-storeyed building built along the quays. Two gas lamps can be seen along the quay in front of the building and a single mashrabiyya (a form of enclos...
'[Muscat] Old Portuguese Fort (1550). 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter This view of the Al-Jalali Fort at the south-eastern end of the Bay of Muscat was likely photographed from the roof of the British Consulate, situated along the shoreline adjacent to it (see also Photo 430/8/3). Inscriptions Upper right, in pen, on image: 'p. 8'; alongsi...
'[Muscat] Sultan's Palace. 31. Oct 1900'. Photographer: Arthur Alexander Crookshank
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Genre/Subject Matter This view of the bay of Muscat from an elevated position in the east was likely photographed from Al-Jalali fort. It shows the Al-Mirani fort at centre, along with the Sultan's Palace and a variety of other buildings lining the shore in the left middleground. Many small c...
