- CA UVICARCH SC500-2015-016
- Accession
- 1424
The accrual consists of a notarial document recording a procurement agreement between Petrus de Mathamala and Arnaldus Barnesii, Spain (Barcelona), 19 January 1424.
The accrual consists of a notarial document recording a procurement agreement between Petrus de Mathamala and Arnaldus Barnesii, Spain (Barcelona), 19 January 1424.
Siberia Expedition Photographs
Parte deEric Elkington collection
The accrual consists of photographs from an expedition to Siberia. Also includes diaries with transcription, photograph album, typescript of speech, letters, and edited transcriptions.
Parte deFrank Dumez fonds
The file consists of a DVD of subject files related to the WWII German-occupied sector in the Netherlands designated KVA-A2 (KA1/4sten Verteidigung Abschnitt A2). The sector was called the Scheldt Pocket by Canadians during Operation Switchback. The largest part of this sector was located on the coast at West Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. The sector included the villages of Retranchement, Cadzand, Nieuwvliet, Groede, Breskens, Hoofdplaat, Terneuzen, IJzendijke, Schoondijke, Oostburg, Zuidzande and Sluis.
Qur'an, Maghrib or Andalusia, Fragment
Parte deArabic manuscripts collection
The accrual consists of a bifolium leaf from a Maghribi Koran (Western North Africa) in Kufic script, probably dating to the late 10th or 11th century.
Qur'an, showing Surat Yusuf, Fragment
Parte deArabic manuscripts collection
The accrual consists of a leaf from Koran (Western China) in Sini script.
Qur'an, Surat al-Fatiha, Manuscript
Parte deArabic manuscripts collection
The accrual consists of a leather-bound Koran in very poor condition.
Parte deArabic manuscripts collection
The accrual consists of a single leaf from an 18th century copy.
Parte deArabic manuscripts collection
The accrual consists of En'am-i Serif [Turkish calligraphic manuscript]. Manuscript consists of several chapters of the Qur'an, Arabic and Ottoman and Turkish prayers, calligraphic rondels and seals, hilyes, and miniature paintings of the Kaba, the Prophet's Mosque at Medina, his personal belongings such as his cloak, prayer beads etc., his hand and foot print and similar images. Special Collections had slides made of this mss. See Acc. 2002-006. A second set of these slides is available in the Slide Library (History in Art Dept.). Turkish mss: 412 pp.; calligrapher: Mustapha Eyyub Efendi. Thesis by Aleandra Bain available.1205 [1790]. Date in accordance with the Islamic calendar.
Parte deArabic manuscripts collection
The accrual consists of a single leaf from an 18th century religious manuscript, "Hassi Hasin" (Prayer and Contemplation). It is written in Arabic (probably in Turkey) in the Nashki hand. It may be an Ishmaeli text. It is illuminated, gilded and decorated with a floral motif.
Parte deKeith Macgowan fonds
The accrual consists of holograph correspondence written primarily to his mother from the trenches and war front in Europe, together with a typescript transcription of the letters; a photograph of Macgowan with (apparently) two members of his battalion; programme for a Brussels Ball; clippings; and 11 maps used by Macgowan to direct his troops in battle. Most of the letters have been chronologically arranged by Macgowan; some letters are missing from the sequence, including a large gap 42-53.