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IOR/L/PS/20/125
- Record Id:
- 040-000565407
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000564257
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x00003d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100040047876.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/20/125
- Title:
- ‘Persia.’
- Scope & Content:
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Paper No.7 written by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier of the Bombay Engineers, being a diary of a journey through Persia [Iran] from Rasht to Bushire, undertaken between 24 October and 9 December 1887. The volume was published in Calcutta [Kolkota] in 1888, in Government of India Quarter Master General's Department.
At the front of the volume (f 4) is a list of illustrations and tables numbered 7A-7Z, and two further items numbered 25-26. Items 7A-7E are a map, section plans, route table and equipment list, which are included in the volume (ff 16-20). Items 7F-7Z refer to photographs taken by Antoin Sevruguin, included in a separate album published by Le Messurier (Photo 198). Items 25 and 26 are drawings, included at the end of the album of Sevruguin’s photographs.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000564257
037-000565294
040-000565407 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/20 : Political and Secret Department Library
IOR/L/PS/20/1-289C : Political and Secret Department Library: Works received later, through official channels, plus miscellaneous items
IOR/L/PS/20/125 : ‘Persia.’ - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 18 : ‘Route through Persia on horse back’
IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 19 : ‘Rough Section of Persia from Enselle on Caspian through Kasvin Teheran, Shiraz to Bushire on Persian Gulf’
IOR/L/PS/20/125, f 20 : Plan showing three sections of the route taken by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier in 1887
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/20/125 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0020]/036-000564257[0009]/037-000565294[0111]/040-000565407
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (20 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x00003d
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1888
- End Date:
- 1888
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- 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 22; 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.
- Former External References:
- 262
2B9 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)