Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows two, presumably sequential, maritime / topographical views of a series of small islands in the Red Sea. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows eight or nine rocky islands. In the upper view, the sun can be seen going d...
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime / topographical view of Jibel Jan, which is likely to refer to Djebel Jan on the coast of latter-day Djibouti. The view was sketched from on board ship and shows a series of flat-topped islands leading away from the coa...
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows a maritime / topographical view of Jibel el Teer (Jabal al-Tair Island), a roughly oval-shaped volcanic island northwest of the Bab el-Mandab strait in the Red Sea. Two raised peaks are illustrated at the centre of the island, whi...
‘My Scrap Book volume V’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)
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Genre & Subject Matter As well as four photographs, stamps, seals, printed documents, handwritten texts, maps and letters, this album contains fifty-one pencil, watercolour or pen and ink drawings; eight created while Augustus Fortunatis Bellasis was Collector and Magistrate at Hyderabad (S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
135 folios, including 111 items (4 letters; 5 folios of seals; 1 folio of stamps; 1 printed document; 5 folios of watercolour illustrations of tiles; 1 tracing of a pattern for embroidery; 2 watercolour architectural illustrations of decorated doorways; 4 photographs; 2 handwritten texts; 51 watercolour, pencil or pen and ink drawings; 4 maps, printed; 31 etchings) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume
‘Aden 11. June going out of Harbour’ and ‘Trajan’s Bridge on the Danube. 16 June 1856’. Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis
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Genre/Subject matter Two pencil sketches on paper. The sketch on recto, sketched from on board ship, shows a landscape scene looking inland from the harbour at Aden. The range of hills or mountains in the background probably indicate Jebel Shamsan, or the Shamsan Range, often referred to as ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
2 pencil drawings on one sheet of paper, pasted into volume
Kitāb fī maʿrifat al-ḥiyal al-handasīyah كتاب في معرفة الحيل الهندسية Jazarī, Ismāʿīl ibn al-Razzāz جزري، إسمعيل بن الرزّاز
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Treatise on practical mechanics by Badī‘ al-Zamān Abū al-‘Izz Isma‘īl ibn al-Razzāz (بديع الزمان أبو العزّ إسمعيل بن الرزّاز; fl. 1181-1206), written for al-Ṣāliḥ Abū al-Fatḥ Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad ibn Qarā Arslān, Artuqid king of Diyarbakır (الصالح أبو الفتح محمود بن محمد بن قرا أرسلان زعيم ديار ب...
Kitāb al-adwār fī ʿilm al-mūsīqī كتاب الادوار في علم الموسيقي al-Urmawī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin ibn Yūsuf أرموي، عبد المؤمن بن يوسف
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The Book of Cycles (كتاب أدوار), a succinct but extremely influential treatise on musical theory by Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn Yūsuf ibn Fākhir al-Urmawī (صفي الدين عبد المؤمن بن يوسف بن فاخر الأرموي, d. 1294). The title page gives the author's name as Ṣafī al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Mu’min (صفي الدين ع...
Kitāb manāfi‘ al-aḥjār wa-qīmatihā wa-usūlihā كتاب منافع الأحجار وقيمتها وأصولها Tīfāshī, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf تيفاشي، أحمد بن يوسف
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A treatise on precious stones by Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Tīfāshī. Transcribed by a single scribe who completed his work on 15 Jumādá II 799 AH (16 March AD 1397), and signed his name illegibly at the bottom of f. 60r. Al-Tīfāshī composed the text in 640 AH and gave it the title by which it is more ...
Taqwīm al-ṣiḥḥah تقويم الصحّة Ibn Buṭlān ابن بطلان
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An elaborate presentation copy of Īwānīs al-Mukhtār ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbdūn ibn Saʻdūn's (إيوانيس المختار بن الحسن بن عبدون بن سعدون, known as Ibn Buṭlān [ابن بطلان], d. ca 1068) book on dietetic medicine produced for Saladin’s (صلاح الدين الأيوبي; d. 1193) son, al-Malik al-Ẓāhir (الملك الظاهر; ...
Kitāb al-uṣūl fī sharḥ al-fuṣūl كتاب الأصول في شرح الفصول Ibn al-Quff, Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ابن القف ,أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق
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Commentary by Amīn al-Daulah Abū al-Faraj ibn Ya‘qūb ibn Isḥāq ibn al-Quff (أمين الدولة أبو الفرج بن يعقوب بن إسحاق بن القف, d. 1286) on the Aphorisms (كتاب الفصول) of Hippocrates (أبقراط, d. ca 370 BC). Folio 1 has been bound into the volume upside down. The copy was completed on Friday 6 Sh...
