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IOR/L/MIL/17/16/14
- Record Id:
- 040-000799172
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000799157
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001df
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023644456.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/14
- Title:
- Handbook of Yemen
- Scope & Content:
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The volume is Handbook of Yemen. Prepared by the Arab Bureau, Cairo, 1st edn, 15 January 1917 (Cairo: Government Press, 1917).
The handbook contains information about Yemen under the following headings:
- Area;
- Physical Character (including Relief and Climate);
- Population;
- Districts and Towns;
- Agriculture and Industries;
- Trade (including Currency, and Weights and Measures);
- Political;
- Yemen Army Corps;
- Tribal Notes;
- Personalities;
- Communications;
- Routes.
The prefatory note states that the handbook had been compiled by Major K Cornwallis and Lieutenant-Commander D G Hogarth, RNVR from information obtained in Cairo (especially about tribes and personalities) and from material prepared for the Arabia Handbook issued by the Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division.
The volume contains an 'Outline Map of Yemen' (f 6).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000256868
036-000788810
037-000799157
038-000799158
040-000799172 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/MIL : Records of the Military Department
IOR/L/MIL/17 : Military Department Library
IOR/L/MIL/17/16 : Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Cyprus
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/1-14 : Arabia
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/14 : Handbook of Yemen - Contains:
- IOR/L/MIL/17/16/14, f 6 : ‘Outline map of Yemen’
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- 032-000256868[0017]/036-000788810[0016]/037-000799157[0001]/038-000799158[0014]/040-000799172
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/MIL
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume (91 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001df
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1917
- End Date:
- 1917
- Date Range:
- 1917
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 93 on the inside back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto page of each folio. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages within the volume.
Pagination: the volume also has an original printed pagination sequence numbered 2-167 (ff 7-92).
- Former External References:
- H 58
- Arrangement:
- There is a list of contents at the front of the volume (f 5).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)