1. زيج جديد سلطانى Creator: Author: Ulugh Beg ibn Shāhrukh ibn Tīmūr Gurgān (d. 853H/1449) Contributor: Annotator: Greaves, John, 1602-1652Translator: Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī al-Rifāʿī al-Shāfiʿī Date: 20 Ṣafar 939H (21 September 1532) Language: EnglishLatinArabic Medium: Paper Extent: 94 leaves, two endleaves and two front flyleaves, blank except for the St John’s College bookplate (i–ii + 1–94 + iii–iv).
2. 2 anonymous untitled works Contributor: Annotator: Greaves, John, 1602-1652 Date: c. 1618? Language: EnglishLatinArabic Geographic region: Aleppo? Medium: Paper with traces of small watermarks (a letter B; a trefoil) Extent: 17 folios plus 3 preliminary leaves and 2 endpapers (i–iii + 17 + iv–v).
3. The Mahomedan law of succession to the property of intestatesin Arabick, engraved on copper plates from an ancient manuscript Creator: Ibn al-Mutafanninah, Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, 1103 or 1104-1181 or 1182 (المنشئ) Date: Date Issued: 1782 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Place of Production: enk, England, London Extent: [52] p. ; 26 cm.
4. ‘The Oriental geography of Ebn Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the tenth century’ Contributor: Cadell and Davies (publisher)Wilson and Co (publisher)William Ouseley (author)Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Fārisī (author)Hiwi al-Balkhī (author)Muḥammad Abū‘l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal (author) Date: 1800/1800 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 volume (327 pages)
5. Vol 10 Letters Outward Contributor: HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Prince-Governor of Fārs, Qajar dynasty (correspondent)Residency Surgeon, Persian Gulf (correspondent)Governor of Bushire (correspondent)Resident, Bussora (correspondent)Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent)Ja'afar 'Alī Khān (correspondent) Date: 1806/1808 Language: EnglishFrenchArabic Geographic region: Persia Extent: 2 volumes, 314 items (212 folios)
6. Letter from Nicholas Hankey Smith, Resident at Bushire to [Ja‘afar ‘Alī Khān] Date: 1808/1808 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 2 folios
7. Vol 14: Letters Outward Contributor: HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Residency Surgeon, Persian Gulf (correspondent)Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council (recipient) Date: 1813/1814 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: CharrackRas el KhimaKazroonKhenKishmBussoraSheraz Extent: 1 volume, 254 items (142 folios)
8. Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Sir Evan Nepean, President and Governor in Council, Bombay Date: 1814/1814 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 6 folios
9. Vol 19 Letters inward Contributor: Government of Bombay, Civil Auditor (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Public Department (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Military Paymaster General (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Secretary to the Political Department (correspondent)Sir Knight William Grant Keir (correspondent) Date: 1816/1874 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Rasul Khyma Extent: 1 volume 272 items (162 folios)
10. 'Book No 28 From November 1822 to November 1823' Date: 1822/1823 Language: EnglishArabicPersian Geographic region: Kishm Extent: 1 volume, 17 items (145 folios)
11. ‘Trigonometrical Plan of the Back-water at Amulgawein by Lieut.t G.B. Brucks under the direction of Lieut.t J.M. Guy, H.C.Marine. 1822’ Contributor: John M. Guy (surveyor)George Edward Brucks (surveyor)Michael Houghton (artist) Date: 1822/1822 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Amulgawein Extent: 1 map
12. ‘Trigonometrical Plan of the Back-water of Debai by Lieut.t R. Cogan under the direction of Lt. J.M. Guy, H.C.Marine. 1822. Drawn by M. Houghton’ Contributor: Robert Cogan (surveyor)John M. Guy (surveyor)Michael Houghton (artist) Date: 1822/1822 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Debai Extent: 1 map
13. ‘Trigonometrical Plan of the Back-water at Sharja by Lieut.t R. Cogan under the direction of Lt. J.M. Guy, H.C.Marine. 1822’ Contributor: Robert Cogan (surveyor)Michael Houghton (artist)John M. Guy (surveyor) Date: 1822/1822 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Sharjah Extent: 1 map
14. ‘Trigonometrical Plan of the Entrance of the Back-water at Aymaun by Lieut.t R. Cogan under the direction of Lt. J.M. Guy, H.C. Marine. 1822. Drawn by M. Houghton’ Contributor: Robert Cogan (surveyor)John M. Guy (surveyor)Michael Houghton (artist) Date: 1822/1822 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Aymaun Extent: 1 map
15. ‘Vol 37, 38, 40 Letters inward and outward’ Contributor: Government of Bombay, Civil Auditor (correspondent)HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Persian Secretary (correspondent)Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (correspondent)Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (correspondent)Shaikh Shaikh of the Āl Jalāhimah tribe Raḥmah bin Jābir Āl Jalāhimah (recipient) Date: 1825/1825 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: BussoraPirate Coast Extent: 1 volume, 59 items (92 folios)
16. ‘Arabic Characters to Accompany and for Insertion in the Chart of the Persian Gulf’ Date: 1825/1825 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 item
17. Letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from the Acting Secretary in the Bombay Persian Secretary's Office Date: 1825/1825 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 4 folios
18. Letter no.18 to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary, Government of Bombay Date: 1825/1825 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 5 folios
19. 'Book 47: 1826-1827' Contributor: Emir of Sharjah, Āl Qāsimī dynasty (correspondent)Governor of Bushire (recipient)President and Governor of Bombay in Council (correspondent) Date: 1826/1827 Language: EnglishPersianArabic Geographic region: Mombasa Extent: 1 file, 9 items (33 folios)
20. Letter No. 154 from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf Date: 1826/1826 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 3 folios
21. Letter No. 196 from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf Date: 1826/1826 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 25 folios
22. Vol 43: Letters Inward Contributor: Government of Bombay, Political and Services Department (correspondent)Thomas Perronet Thompson (correspondent)Shaikh Shaikh of the Āl Jalāhimah tribe Raḥmah bin Jābir Āl Jalāhimah (recipient) Date: 1826/1826 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Kateef Extent: 1 volume, 4 items (31 folios)
23. Letter No 357 of 1827 from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, Bombay Castle, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire [Ephraim Gerrish Stannus] Date: 1827/1827 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 2 folios
24. 'A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English; with a Dissertation on the Languages, Literature, and Manners of Eastern Nations' Date: 1829/1829 Language: EnglishArabicPersian Extent: 1 volume (908 folios)
25. Letter No. 448: William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, to David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire Date: 1829/1829 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 8 folios
26. Vol 59: Letters Inward Contributor: President and Governor of Bombay in Council (correspondent) Date: 1829/1829 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: BahreinMuscat Extent: 1 volume, 3 items (18 folios)
27. Vol 66: Letters Inward Contributor: Elphinstone Institution (correspondent) Date: 1829/1830 Language: EnglishArabicHindi Geographic region: CalicutMuscatTellicherry Extent: 1 volume (40 folios)
28. 'Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys Collected During his Travels in the East, by the Late John Lewis Burckhardt' Contributor: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (publisher)Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa (publisher)Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (author)William Ouseley (editor) Date: 1830/1830 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 volume (439 pages)
30. ‘Chart of the Gulf of Persia. Constructed from the Trigonometrical Surveys Made by Order of The Hon.ble the Court of Directors of the United English East India Company; by George Barnes Brucks, Commander H.C. Marine. 1830. Engraved by R. Bateman, 85 Long Acre’ Contributor: James Horsburgh (publisher)Richard Bateman (artist)George Edward Brucks (surveyor) Date: 1832/1832 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Persian Gulf Extent: 1 map on 2 sheets
31. Chart of the Gulf of Persia. Constructed from the Trigonometrical Surveys Made by Order of The Hon.ble the Court of Directors of the United English East India Company; by George Barnes Brucks, Commander H.C. Marine Contributor: Richard Bateman (artist)George Edward Brucks (surveyor)James Horsburgh (publisher) Date: 1832/1832 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 map
32. ‘Secret letters inward’ Contributor: 3rd Viscount Palmerston Henry John Temple (correspondent) Date: 1839/1840 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: BrymeeKateef Extent: 1 file (79 folios)
33. 'Book 130' Letters inward Contributor: Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Secretary to the Political Department (correspondent)Shaikh Salmin bin Nasir (recipient) Date: 1840/1841 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Trucial CoastEl BiddahBahreinMuskatKarrack (island)Eastern Africa Extent: 1 file (40 folios)
34. Kitab al-muhawarah al-unsiyah fi al-lughatayn al-Inkliziyah wa-al-Arabiyah = Arabic and English grammatical exercises and familiar dialogues : chiefly intended for the use of students in the English language. Date: 1840-01-01 Language: ArabicEnglish
35. 'Book 141 1844-1849' secret letters inward Contributor: Government of Persia, Qajar dynasty (correspondent) Date: 1843/1848 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Eastern Africa Extent: 1 file (111 folios)
36. 'Confdl. 86/48 Ras al Khaimah Oil' Contributor: Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (correspondent) Date: 1845/1945 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Ras al Khaimah Extent: 1 file (21 folios)
37. 'Book 181 - 1852' Contributor: Native Agent, Shiraz (correspondent) Date: 1851/1852 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: PersiaBasraBushireCarrack Extent: 1 volume (146 folios)
38. 'Vol 178 1852/53 Bahrain; Arabian Coast; Slave Trade; Muscat' Date: 1852/1852 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Trucial Coast Extent: 1 file in two volumes (122 items, 338 folios)
39. Letter no.402 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay Date: 1852/1852 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 2 folios
40. 25 File 624 Biographical histories of noteworthy persons; information collected from officials at Muscat, Makran Coast, Gwadar Contributor: Native Agent, Bahrain (correspondent)Assistant Political Agent, Mekran Coast (correspondent) Date: 1852/1884 Language: EnglishArabicPersian Geographic region: BahrainFarsOmanBusrah Extent: 1 volume (430 folios)
41. Vol 187 1853/54 Persia; Squadron Contributor: Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (recipient)HM Chargé d'Affaires to Iran (correspondent) Date: 1853/1853 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Batinah CoastLingah Extent: 1 volume, 39 items (60 folios)
42. Letter No. 79: Commodore George Robinson, Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, HC Sloop Clive, Near Bushire, to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire Date: 1853/1853 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 4 folios
43. Letter no.403 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay Date: 1854/1854 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 19 folios
44. 'Vol 212 Secret Correspondence: Bahrain; Muscat and Bandar Abbas; Miscellaneous and Local' Contributor: HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (correspondent)Āl 'Alī (Family) (correspondent) Date: 1856/1857 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Bunder AbbasMuscat Extent: 2 volumes (305 folios)
45. Persian Expeditionary Force Contributor: HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (correspondent)Foreign Office (correspondent)HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Commander of the Persian Expeditionary Force (correspondent)Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (correspondent)Political Agent, Persian Field Force (correspondent)East India Company, Court of Directors, Secret Committee (correspondent) Date: 1856/1857 Language: EnglishArabicFrench Geographic region: Karrack (island)Tungistoon Extent: 1 volume (226 folios)
46. Native Letters Outward Date: 1856/1859 Language: EnglishArabicPersian Extent: 1 volume (140 folios)
47. 'Book No 219. From November 1856 and January 1857 To July 1861' Contributor: Native Agent, Muscat (correspondent)Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd Dynasty (correspondent)Sultan of Zanzibar (correspondent)Political Agent and Consul, Muscat (correspondent)Native Agent, Trucial Coast, Sharjah (correspondent)Turkī bin Sa'īd Āl Bū Sa'īd (correspondent) Date: 1857/1862 Language: EnglishArabicHebrew Geographic region: MuscatZanzibarOman Extent: 1 volume (327 folios)
48. 'Book No 253' Contributor: Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (correspondent)Native Agent, Bahrain (correspondent)Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (correspondent)Shaikh of Demaum (correspondent)King of Bahrain (correspondent) Date: 1857/1862 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: BassidoreDemaumBahrein Extent: 1 volume (226 folios)