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1781.b.6/1

Record Id:

041-002560949

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

041-002560949

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100022547738.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023619120.0x00002e

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

1781.b.6/1

Title:

'Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt'.

Scope & Content:

Genre/Subject Matter

This panoramic view over Mecca showing most of the Masjid al-Haram and the northwest portion of the city is likely a print of a drawing after a photograph or series of photographs of the same view by the Mekkan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār.

Numbers printed within the image refer to locations indicated in a key (in German) below the image. These are as follows: Office of the Qādhi; Castle on Jebel Hindi; Building housing the Zamzam well; Minbar; Maqām al-H̱anafī; Maqām al-Mālikī; and Maqām al-H̱anbalī.

An additional note in German states that ‘the steps to the Caaba and the Maqām Ibrahīm, which is also the Maqām el-Schāfi’ī’, are obscured from view by the Zamzam building.'

Inscriptions

Printed above image, in ink:

Printed beneath image, in ink:

‘Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt.’

‘1. Amt des Qādhī’s. 2. Festung auf dem Djèbèl Hindī. 3. Gebäude des Zemzembrunnens. 7. Mimbar (Kanzel). 8. Maqām èl-H̱anafī. 9. Maqām èl-Mālikī. 10. Maqām èl-H̱ambalī. Die Treppen zur Ka’bah und der Maqām Ibrāhīm (zugleich Maqām ès-Schāfi’ī) sind hier durch das Zemzemgebäude dem Auge entzogen.’

Scattered throughout image: numbers 1–3; 7–10

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

041-002560949

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

041-002560949

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph

Digitised Content:

Languages:

German

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1888

End Date:

1888

Date Range:

1888

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions:

164 x 410 mm

Format:

1 line engraving after a photograph, printed onto two pages and bound into volume

Condition:

The print is in good condition with only minor surface dirt throughout.

Foliation:

‘I’

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Subjects:

Historic buildings
Landscape photography
Mosques