Free State Region, South Africa, 1899 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Stanford's new map of the Orange Free State, the southern part of the South African Republic, the northern frontier of Cape Colony, Natal, Basutoland and Delagoa Bay. It was published by E. Stanford in 1899. Scale 1:1,000,000 The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Lambert Conformal Conic projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads and stations, administrative and territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by shading and spot heights.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Sat:veṇī [niñḍhī] : manuscript, 1890?

Foreign wove paper; watermark: made in Belgium for Nuzzurally Heptoolabhoy, Bombay.

Vāek:vaḏo : manuscript, 1890?

Foreign wove paper, probably German; watermark: Keferstein & Sohn, 1871.

Satveṇī:vaḍī : manuscript, 1884

Foreign paper, good quality.

[ Nikāḥ] : manuscript, ca. 1894

Marriage ritual in Arabic, the Story of the fast of Satī Mā also known as the fast of Maulā ʻAlī, a Prayer to be recited during ceremony for the forgiveness of sin on the Great Day (the Day of Judgement), the short kalimah or testimony of faith and the long kalimah.

Bhaet : manuscript, 1890?

Narratives to be recited at the commemorative assembly (majlis) held on the 30th and 40th days after the martyrdom of Imām Ḥusain.

[ Farmāns] : manuscript, 1910?

According to a note on p. 1, contains farmāns made by Imām Sulṭān Muḥammad Shāh [Aga Khan III] at Zanzibar, Bagamoyo and Dar es Salaam. The manuscript records those farmāns made between 19 Jeṭh [Jyeshtha] to 23 Bhadr [Bhadrapad] s. 1956 (approx. May-September 1899).

Narratives to be recited at the commemorative assembly (majlis) held on the 10th and 20th days after the martyrdom anniversary of Imām Ḥusain : manuscript, 1890?

Title provided by cataloger.

Rasālo:emām:jāfar:sādhak:jo : manuscript, 1890?

A popular treatise in 18 parts.

Namāz : manuscript, 1858-1865

Ritual Prayer in Arabic with instructions on number of prostration cycles (rakaʻahs) to be performed during each of the five prayer times.

Nasabh:nāme:hazarat:nabhī:mahamadh:mûstafā : manuscript, 1900?

Second and third chapters of the anonymous Hindustani work entitled "Nasabh:nāme:hazarat:nabhī:mahamadh:mûstafā" and various accounts.

Various Shiite devotional texts to be recited in religious assemblies (majālis) commemorating the events leading to the martyrdom of the Shii Imam Ḥusain b. ʻAlī (d. 860)] : manuscript, 1900?

Various Shiite devotional texts to be recited in religious assemblies (majālis) commemorating the events leading to the martyrdom of the Shii Imam Ḥusain b. ʻAlī (d. 680). Each majlis (there is twenty) begins with a synoptic heading. The beginning of 17th majlis suggests that some of these texts are based on Mahdī b. Abī Zarr al-Kāshānī an-Niraqī's "Muḥarriq al-qulub (a Shiite history of the martyrs of the Prophet's family).

[ vīrā:mārā:dhan:pûtr:māeā:sarve:karmī:kahīe] : manuscript, ca. 1887

Local paper. Pages slightly discolored.

[ Padas] : manuscript, 1900?

Collection of religious poems.

ejī:harī:nāme:harī:jāṇī:e : manuscript, 1829?

Title provided by cataloger.