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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/350
Title:: [Un-numbered File] Muscat Diary 1905-1907
Scope & Content:: This file contains several types of documentation with information on the condition of the country, arrivals and departures of ships, movement of British representatives, missionary enterprises, aviation etc. However, the bulk of the file consists of weekly reports containing the main political n...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1905-1907
Extent:: 1 file (269 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/472
Title:: War Subsidy & Grants 1939 to 1942
Scope & Content:: This volume contains papers relating to the supply and gifting of arms and ammunition to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman during roughly the first half of the Second World War between 1939 and 1942. The papers are primarily receipts and lists of weapons and ammunition requested and subsequently tran...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 6 Dec 1939-9 Jan 1943
Extent:: 1 volume (210 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9682
Title:: Müsellahname - مسلحنامه
Scope & Content:: This volume contains an abridged version of the Silahşörname, a work on the handling of weapons based on an Arabic-language original from Egypt. The author of the text is the well-known Uzun Firdevsi, who lived in the time of Bayezit II. This manuscript was likely copied in the 16th century CE.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 16th century
Extent:: 1 text, 67 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 1253/1(66)
Title:: 'Khan of Lalpura and Followers with Political Officer.' At the back of this picture, hard to distinguish in his turban, is the British Political Officer Robert Warburton. With an Afghan mother and British father, and a fluent speaker of Pashto, he enjoyed a long, distinguished military career. Photographer(s): Burke, John (1843–1900)
Scope & Content:: View of a British Colonel sitting with a group of armed Afghan men. Facsimile of work photographed by John Burke, 1878. There is a marking 'Burke 57', lower left of the image. Printed by Simon Norfolk, 2011 Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: BY APPOINTMENT / JNO: BURKE LATE / BAKER &...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 2010-2011
Extent:: 1 item

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