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4481. Or 11313, ff 144v-148v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 144v-148v
Title:
Risālat al-Zawrāʼ رسالة الزوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:
Philosophical treatise by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) composed at Najaf in 872/1467 (see Newman, 'Davānī, Jalāl-al-Dīn Moḥammad', in Encyclopaedia Iranica Online [accessed 2 June 2023] http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_8169). B...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 144v-148v

4482. Or 11313, ff 149v-159r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 149v-159r
Title:
Risālat al-Ḥawrāʼ رسالة الحوراء Dawānī, Muḥammad ibn Asʻad دواني، محمد بن أسعد
Scope & Content:
Commentary by Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Asʻad al-Dawānī (جلال الدين محمد بن أسعد الدواني, d. 1502) on his own philosophical treatise the Risālat al-Zawrāʼ (رسالة الزوراء, item 7 in the present volume). Begins (f. 149v, lines 2-4): أما بعد الحمد لوليه والصلوة على نبيه فإني لما فرغت من تهذيب الر...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 149v-159r

4483. Or 11313, ff 160v-169v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11313, ff 160v-169v
Title:
[Treatise on geomantic divination (علم الرمل)] Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad طوسي، نصير الدين محمد بن محمد
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the 'science of sand' (علم الرمل), or geomantic divination, by Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsī (نصير الدين محمد بن محمد الطوسي, d. 1274). The text is perhaps the Sufficient Treatise on the Science of Sand (الرسالة الوافي في علم الرمل) also known as the Sultanic Treatise o...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
Ff. 160v-169v

4484. Photo 174

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 174
Title:
Album: 'Views of Mecca and Medina' by H. A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers
Scope & Content:
The album contains historical and architectural views of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, which relate to a South Asian Muslim perspective of the hadj. Contents: 1 'Picture of the Tents of the Turks' 2 'Picture of the Sanctuary of Medina the Radiant' 3 'Picture of the City of Mecca the Grea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1907
Extent:
13 b/w photographic prints within blue card mounts, bound into one volume

4485. Photo 355/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1
Title:
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album

4486. Photo 392

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 392
Title:
Stein Collection
Scope & Content:
Photo 392/1 47 prints Album A.2: 'Kashmir 1895, Punjab 1890-91.' Photo 392/2 48 Prints Album A.3: 'Kashmir 1891, Aug.' Photo 392/3 46 prints Album A.4: 'Kashmir 1891, Sept.' Photo 392/4 48 prints Album A.5: 'Kashmir 1891, Sept. 1892, Aug.' Photo 392/5 47 prints Album A.6: 'Punjab 1892.' Pho...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1890-1939
Extent:
1191 slides, 3202 negatives, 7841 photographic prints

4487. Photo 392/30

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 392/30
Title:
Stein Collection: Albums A.44-50. Tour of Swat, 1926. Photographer(s): Stein, Marc Aurel
Scope & Content:
This collection of seven albums (containing 438 prints, numbered 1-419, plus duplicates) covers Stein's 1926 tour of Upper Swat in two sequences. Albums A.44-A.47 are larger formats prints, while albums A.48-A.50 cover the same period in smaller format photographs. Prints 385-419 from the same s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
438 items

4488. Photo 392/37

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 392/37
Title:
Stein Collection: Albums A.85–92. Punjab, Iran and Swat, 1931–33
Scope & Content:
Eight albums containing a total of 492 prints, covering the following subjects: Prints 1–77 Expedition to Jhelum District, Punjab, November 1931-January 1932 Prints 78–254 First Expedition to Iran, January-May 1932 Prints 255–394 Second Expedition to Iran, November 1932-May 1933 Prints 395–4...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1931-1933
Extent:
492 photographic prints

4489. Photo 392/37(283)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 392/37(283)
Title:
'Fort of Mināb from West' by Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: General view of the Fort of Mināb, in Hormozgan Province, taken from the west. The image is used in M.A. Stein, Archaeological Reconnaissances in Southern Persia (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1934), fig. 58. Inscriptions: Letterpress, below image: ‘P. 183.– Fort ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 silver gelatin print

4490. Photo 392/37(284)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 392/37(284)
Title:
‘Qala of Mināb with street from south-west.’ by Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: General view of the Fort of Mināb, in Hormozgan Province, taken from the south-west. Poor quality, underexposed print. Inscriptions: Letterpress, below image: ‘P. O123.– Qala of Mināb with street from south-west.’ In pen, crossed out, alongside image: ‘285’ In pencil, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 silver gelatin print

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