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11. IOR/R/15/5/384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/384
Title:
Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked confidential, is Field Notes on Sa'udi Arabia, 1935, prepared by Donald Banks of the Air Ministry, by command of the Air Council. The volume begins with a brief forward (folio 2) in which the geographical scope is outlined. The volume is then divided into nine chapters (I-IX)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1936
Extent:

1 volume (120 folios)

12. Or 1170

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 1170
Title:
Kitab-i Melheme - كتاب ملحمه
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a versified treatise on prognostics to be derived from eclipses, halos, shooting starts, rainbows, hail, peculiar appearances of the sky, and other meteorological phenomena, according to their occurrence in the months of the Hijri year, from Teşrin-i evel to Eylül. The autho...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 text, 100 ff

13. Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8857, ff 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v
Title:
Kitāb al-azminah كتاب الأزمنة
Scope & Content:
Collection of calendrical, astronomical, meteorological and medical information along with details about Christian feast days and events in the commercial calendar. The material is arranged by month following the order of the Orthodox liturgical calendar, which begins on 1 Aylūl/September. For a...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1000
Extent:

Ff. 30v-33v, 11r-16v, 3r-10v, 17r-17v, 1r and 1v

14. Or 11928

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 11928
Title:
[Şemsiye] - [شمسيه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the following two works : (I) ff 1v-125v : Şemsiye, a treatise in verse on the prognostics to be drawn from meteorological phenomena according to the month of the solar year in which they appear, written by Yazıcı Salahaddin in 811 AH (1408-09 CE). There is a table of cont...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1164
Extent:
2 texts, 155 ff

15. Or 13366

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 13366
Title:
[Melheme] - [ملحمه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Melheme be-nazm-i Cevri Çelebi be-tarz-ı cedid, a recension by İbrahim Cevri Çelebi of Yazıcı Salaheddin's Şemsiye, a mesnevi treatise, translated from the Persian original on the art of prognostication from meteorological phenomena. Katip Çelebi gives the name of the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1079
Extent:
1 text, 136 ff

16. Or 14293

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 14293
Title:
Yatīmat al-ʿaṣr fī al-madd wa-al-jazr يتيمة العصر في المد والجزر Ibn Mīmī, ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ابن مِيمي، عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي
Scope & Content:
A wide-ranging treatise on natural phenomena relating to the seas, by ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Mīmī al-Baṣrī (عبد القادر بن أحمد بن علي بن مِيمي البصري, d. 1674). The text, also known as Wary al-zand bi-al-jazr wa-al-madd (وري الزند بالجزر والمد), was composed in 1084/1673 and the pr...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
14 Jumādá II 1085
Extent:

Codex; ff. i+125