Project / Collection: Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme / Archive Reference (shelfmark): Or 8086 / Subject: Geography--Early works to 1800 - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 8086 Subject Geography--Early works to 1800

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8086, ff 51r-76v
Title:: Compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators
Scope & Content:: A compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators, attributed to the 'wise men of the sea' (علماء البحر), and completed by an un-named scribe on 2 Jumādá II 1287/30 August 1870 (see colophon, f. 76r, transcribed below). The first half of the work (ff. 51r-59v) is divided into an in...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:: Ff. 51r-76v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8086, ff 77v-106r
Title:: Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
Scope & Content:: A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1870
Extent:: Ff. 77v-106r

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