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IOR/R/15/5/382
- Record Id:
- 040-000242431
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000241998
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0001d3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040742707.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/5/382
- Title:
- Handbook of Asir
- Scope & Content:
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The volume, marked 'For Official Use Only', is a first edition Handbook of Asir, prepared by Captain K Cornwallis of the Arab Bureau, Cairo, and printed by the Government Press, Cairo, 1 June 1916.
The volume opens with a prefatory note on compilation and sources and is then divided into seventeen chapters (I-XVII), as follows:
I - Area
II - Relief
III - Physical Character and Climate
IV - Population
V - Domestic Apparatus and Manufactures
VI - Agriculture
VII - Live-stock
VIII - Trade
IX - Currency
X - Weights and Measures
XI - Taxes
XII - Recent History and Present Politics
XIII - Military Organization and Resources
XIV - Tribal Notes
XV - Personalities
XVI - Roads and Communications
XVII - Route Reports
The majority of the volume focuses on tribes, personalities, and route reports.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000241998
037-000242372
038-000242411
040-000242431 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/5 : Political Agency, Kuwait
IOR/R/15/5/328-398 : Kuwait Agency, Official publications and printed material
IOR/R/15/5/365-398 : Miscellaneous official and non-official printed material
IOR/R/15/5/382 : Handbook of Asir - Contains:
- IOR/R/15/5/382, f 92 : Outline Map of Asir
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/R/15/5/382 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0005]/036-000241998[0004]/037-000242372[0002]/038-000242411[0020]/040-000242431
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (93 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x0001d3
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1916
- End Date:
- 1916
- Date Range:
- 1916
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 95; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
- Arrangement:
- At the beginning of the volume is a list of contents (folio 6) which refers to the original pagination. The chapter on tribes is arranged geographically. The chapter on personalities is arranged alphabetically.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)