1 - 3 of 3
Number of results to display per page
Search Results
1. 4 works by 4 authors on the subjects of Persian poetry and love poetry
- Description:
- Binding: Yellow and red goatskin, covered in lacquer, painted with birds, flowers and butterflies. Rebacked.Full catalogue record in Fihrist: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate WorldContents: Muḥammad ʻAṣṣār Tabrīzī, Mihr va-Mushtarī (ff. 1b-260a, centre columns). Ghazālī Mashhadī, Naqsh-i badīʻ (ff. 260b-287a). Saʻdī, Khulāṣah-ʼi Būstān (ff. 287b-298b). Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Khusraw va-Shīrīn (ff. 3b-270a, margin column).Decoration: Unwan. 9 miniatures. Decorative borders etc.Dimensions: 10 × 5⅝ in.Hand: Nastaʻlīq.Record origin: Manuscript description based on: Beeston, A. F. L. (Alfred Felix Landon); Ethé, Hermann, 1844-1917.; Sachau, Eduard, 1845-1930; Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindûstânî, and Pushtû manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; at the Clarendon Press 1889-1953.
2. Vol 34: Letters Outward
- Description:
- Abstract: This volume consists of contemporaneous copies of outward letters from the Bushire Residency. Most of the letters are written by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Ephraim Gerrish Stannus. A small number of letters are written by the Assistant Surgeon at Bushire, James Pringle Riach, who was temporarily in charge of the Residency during Stannus's absence. Most of the letters are addressed to East India Company officials at Bombay, of which the most prominent recipients are the following: William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay; John Wedderburn, Accountant General, Bombay; and Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay. Many of the letters to William Newnham contain copies of the Resident's correspondence with a number of local rulers, including: Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī, ruler of Sharjah and Ra's al-Khaymah; Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, Governor of Bushire; His Royal Highness Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mīrzā, Prince of Shiraz; and the Imam of Muscat, Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Sa‘īd. Other recipients include a number of commanders of East India Company ships as well as Henry Willock, His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Persia, and his brother, George Willock, Secretary in Charge of the British Mission, Tabrīz. The letters in this volume cover a range of topics, including the following: the accounts and expenses of the Bushire Residency; trade, both at Bushire and at other Persian ports; relations between Rahma bin Jabir and the ruler of Bahrain; the estate of the former Governor of Bushire, Muhammad Nabi Khan; a dispute between Tahnun bin Shakhbut, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi, and his brother, Muhammad bin Shakhbut Al Nahayan, former Shaikh of Abu Dhabi; speculations on the intentions of Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī; the Resident's concerns about the reduced scale of the marine establishment; the costs involved in carrying out alterations and repairs on the Residency building; updates from Stannus regarding an act of piracy, which is reported to have been committed to the south of Muscat by two boats from Sharjah.Physical description: Pagination: There is a pagination sequence, which is written in pencil, in the top right corners of the rectos and the top left corners of the versos. Not every verso has been numbered, but the sequence is consistent. The sequence begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and ends on the last page of writing, on number 144.Foliation: The foliation sequence is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 2, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 76. This is the sequence which has been used by this catalogue to reference items within the volume.Condition: The folios in this volume have suffered from insect damage. Parts of the bottom edges of the front cover are missing, as are parts of the bottom edges of the first dozen or so folios within the volume.
3. File 3360/1916 Pt 3 'Persian correspondence. (1918-22)'
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume consists of letters telegrams, and memoranda comprising miscellaneous correspondence from the Government of India.A number of topics are covered in the correspondence including:use of aeroplanes in South Persiaa note by General Douglas on policy in Farsthe view of the General Officer Commanding, Bushire, as to the results of complete British withdrawal from the Bushire-Shiraz roadviews on policy in the Bushire-Shiraz areaknowledge of Farman Farma concerning the Kashgai uprisingBakhtiari khans and their financesproposed dissolution of the South Persian Riflesdetails on the armed units of Persian tribesmen assembled by Wilhelm Wassmussrebellion of Mohammad Taqi KhanCorrespondents include: HBM Consul-General, Meshed; the Under-Secretary to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; HBM Consul, Sistan; HBM Minister, Tehran; Chief of the General Staff, Delhi; HBM Consul-General and Agent of the Government in India, Khorassan.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, subject headings, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 325; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated.