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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Or 8086

1. Or 8086

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086
Title:
Three nautical handbooks
Scope & Content:
Three handbooks containing a mixture of tables, geographical coordinates, and short texts on astronomy, calculations, wayfinding, and instruments useful for navigation in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea, bound into one volume. The colophon to the second text provides th...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:
Codex; ff. i+104+iii+2+ii

2. Or 8086, ff 1r-50v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 1r-50v
Title:
Nautical directory
Scope & Content:
Anonymous nautical directory containing sets of tables used for the calculation of latitudes and distances, and a gazetteer of ports on the Persian Gulf coasts, Arabian Peninsula, East Africa, Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, and Indian Ocean island groups. The tables are occasionally decorate...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1870
Extent:
Ff. 1r-50v

3. Or 8086, ff 51r-76v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 51r-76v
Title:
Compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators
Scope & Content:
A compilation of technical and practical advice for navigators, attributed to the 'wise men of the sea' (علماء البحر), and completed by an un-named scribe on 2 Jumādá II 1287/30 August 1870 (see colophon, f. 76r, transcribed below). The first half of the work (ff. 51r-59v) is divided into an in...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
2 Jumādá II 1287
Extent:
Ff. 51r-76v

4. Or 8086, ff 77v-106r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 8086, ff 77v-106r
Title:
Didactic manual of nautical and navigational practices
Scope & Content:
A teaching manual transmitted from an anonymous author (المؤلف) on navigational practices and nautical information, interspersed with poems. Following an introductory sermon (خطبة), the first part of the work contains numerous sections (أبواب) on theoretical astronomy and observation (understan...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
ca 1870
Extent:
Ff. 77v-106r