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
Distinctive Features: Hand drawn sketch map of the Persian Gulf region produced to illustrate the album of the photographs taken by Edwin Aubrey Storrs-Fox showing places visited during the tour of 1916-1918. Inscriptions: Upper centre, above image, in black ink: ‘The Persian Gulf’ and ‘1916...
Genre/Subject Matter: This maritime scene shows boats at the port city of Mohammerah (Khorramshahr) at the mouth of the Karun River on the Shatt-el-Arab delta. At the centre of the image two masts indicate that a dhow is moored, however, at least five smaller crafts are visible from the centr...
Genre/Subject Matter: This scene shows a creek at Mohammerah (Khorramshahr), which is located at the mouth of the Karun River on the Shatt-el-Arab delta. Two-storeyed buildings and trees line the creek on the left. The buildings at centre of the image have arcades on the lower floor and rawas...
Genre/Subject Matter: This scene shows a stream or irrigation channel, a palm grove and several Arab men at Mohammerah (Khorramshahr), which is located at the mouth of the Karun River on the Shatt-el-Arab delta. The stream extends from lower left to centre left of the image: it may be a man-m...
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
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...
Miscellany of texts on gemstones, Ottoman sultans, and herbs
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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...
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 ...
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...
