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Subject Cultivated flowers

1. IOR/R/15/2/1514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1514
Title:
‘File 16/17 i Agency Gardens’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to purchases for and the maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency gardens. The file’s correspondents include: the Political Agent (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch); representativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:
13 Oct 1927-8 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

2. Or 6851

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6851
Title:
Takvimu'l-kibar min maabirü'l-ezhar - تقويم الكبار من معابر الازهار
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a work on floriculture in the form of a table setting out the varieties of tulips and their characteristics, together with the names of those who are associated with their cultivation (sahib-i tohum), including the author, Mehmet Aşki. The work is dedicated to Sultan Selim I...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1225
Extent:
1 text, 54 ff

3. Or 11088

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11088
Title:
[Netaic-i ezhar] - [نتائج ازهار]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an account of the persons who were first associated with the cultivation of particular flowers or varieties of flowers in the Ottoman Empire, written in 1110 AH (1698-99 CE) by Hacci Mehmet İbn-i Ahmet el-Ubeydi, hatıp at the Şehremini Mosque. The text contains a single un...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1111
Extent:
1 text, 49 ff