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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F377
Title:: John Bax: Manuscript Journals
Scope & Content:: Travel journals of John Bax, Bombay Civil Service 1808-c40, describing journeys in India, the Middle East, and Europe.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1812-1859
Extent:: 2 volumes (510 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8086
Title:: Three nautical handbooks
Scope & Content:: Three handbooks containing a mixture of tables, geographical coordinates, and short texts on astronomy, calculations, wayfinding, and instruments useful for navigation in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea, bound into one volume. The colophon to the second text provides th...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+104+iii+2+ii

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8086, ff 1r-50v
Title:: Nautical directory
Scope & Content:: Anonymous nautical directory containing sets of tables used for the calculation of latitudes and distances, and a gazetteer of ports on the Persian Gulf coasts, Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indian Ocean island groups. The tables are occasionally decorate...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: ca 1870
Extent:: Ff. 1r-50v

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

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229
Title:: Six alchemical texts Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Collection of alchemical texts by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy was produced by Darwīsh ʻAlī ibn Shams al-Dīn al-Kāẓimī (دروي...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1091
Extent:: Codex; ff. i+200+i

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 1v and 5r-12v
Title:: al-Juzʼ al-thānī min Kitāb jāmiʻ al-asrār الجزء الثاني من كتاب جامع الأسرار Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of Part Two (الجزء الثاني) of a defense of alchemy against an unnamed detractor by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The c...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1091
Extent:: Ff. 1v and 5r-12v

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 13r-53v, 2r-4v and 54r-101r
Title:: [al-Juzʼ al-awwal wa-huwa Mafātīḥ al-raḥmah الجزء الأول وهو مفاتيح الرحمة] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of a two-part alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The copy is defective at beginning, with folios missing...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 10 Ṣafar 1091
Extent:: Ff. 13r-53v, 2r-4v and 54r-101r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 101v-160r
Title:: al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-huwa Maṣābīḥ al-ḥikmah الجزء الثاني وهو مصابيح الحكمة Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Incomplete copy of an alchemical text by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). This text is part two of the preceding item in the present volum...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 29 Ṣafar 1091
Extent:: Ff. 101v-160r

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8229, ff 160v-161r
Title:: [Alchemical dream vision] Ṭughrāʼī, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī طغرائي، الحسين بن علي
Scope & Content:: Record of an alchemical dream vision by the Seljuq chancellor (صاحب ديوان الإنشاء) and vizier, poet and alchemist Muʼayyad al-Dīn Abū Ismāʻīl al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAlī al-Ṭughrāʼī (مؤيد الدين أبو إسماعيل الحسين بن علي الطغرائي, d. 1121). The text is preceded by a brief preface (f. 160v, lines 2-4, tra...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1091
Extent:: Ff. 160v-161r

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