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Collection Area Western Manuscripts Language Arabic Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 5232

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Title:
Maps, drawings and notes collected by Engelbert Kaempfer and relating to his travels
Scope & Content:
Maps and drawings of views, antiquities and plants relating to Engelbert Kaempfer's (1651-1716) travels through Russia, the Persian Empire and Japan. Kaempfer was a German doctor, naturalist and physician who travelled to the Persian Empire as part of a Swedish embassy and was subsequently appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Japanese, Latin, and Russian
Date Range:
late 17th century-early 18th century
Extent:
1 volume (243 items)

2. Add MS 5234

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Title:
Drawings by Gerard Hofstede van Essen, Dr Edward Browne and others
Scope & Content:
This album contains many drawings with inscriptions that include outdated terms. Where these inscriptions have been transcribed, the text is always in between inverted commas. This is an album of drawings executed by G. Hofstede van Essen, Edward Browne and other draughtsmen. These are primaril...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:

1 volume (105 items)

3. Add MS 5662

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Title:
Ecclesiastical map of Upper Egypt with names in Greek and Arabic
Scope & Content:
Ecclesiastical map of Upper Egypt with names in Greek and Arabic. In the left corner a column with a list of all cities, metropoles and dioceses under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Alexandria: θρόνος Ἀλεξανδρινὸς Κατάλογος τῶν πόλεων, Μητροπόλεων καὶ Ἐπισκοπῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ Πατριάρχου Ἀλεξανδρεί...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8482-8483

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Title:
PAPERS relating to ecclesiastical affairs of the Papacy (Holy Congregation of the Propaganda Fide) in Egypt, Albania, Arcipelago Tine, Morea, Dalmatia, Brazil, Armenia, India, Ireland, England, China, Antioch, Damascus; 1649, circa 1759-1789
Scope & Content:
Italian, Latin, French and Arabic. Archival copies. Partly printed. A collection of papers, mostly ristretti di ponenze (i.e. abstracts of formal proposals) submitted by cardinals to the Holy Congregation of the Propaganda Fide concerning religious and local matters. Most ponenze endorsed with n...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1759-1789
Extent:
2 items

5. Add MS 8779-8780

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Title:
JOHANN MICHAEL WANSLEBEN: Relazione of Egypt; circa 1668
Scope & Content:
German, Arabic, Italian, and Latin. Autographs. The relazione is the result of a two-year journey to Egypt undertaken in 1663-1665 by the Dominican friar, traveller and orientalist Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-1679). The text is dedicated to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II de' Medici. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

6. Add MS 11828-12117

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Title:
Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Scope & Content:
Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry: His collection of Mss.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
7th century-19th century
Extent:
296 items

7. Add MS 16405

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Title:
Nicephorus Gregoras, Historiae Romana and Antirrhetica priora
Scope & Content:
Nicephorus Gregoras, Historiae Romana and Antirrhetica priora, including: Epitaphs in memory of Fillipo Strozzi in French. Notes in Greek, Arabic and Latin. Greek proverbs in alphabetical order (from A to Ω), with Latin translation, in two parallel columns.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
12 items

8. Add MS 23644-23680

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE and papers of General Charles Rainsford [d. 1809], aide-de-camp and private secretary to Lord Tyrawly.
Scope & Content:
General Charles Rainsford, Private Secretary to Lord Tyrawley: Correspondence and papers: 1744-1809.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
1744-1809
Extent:
37 items

9. Add MS 25613-25675

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Title:
The "Collectanea Ægyptiaca" of James Burton, formed between 1820 and 1839, and were presented by Decimus Burton. Sixty-three volumes.
Scope & Content:
Topography Collections of Drawings: Drawings illustrative of Burton's Collectanea Ægyptiaca: 19th cent. Egypt: Collectanea Ægyptiaca, by J. Burton: 1820-1839. James Burton: Collectanea Ægyptiaca: 1820 - 1839. Antiquities: Collectanea Ægyptiaca, diaries, drawings and notes, by James Burton: 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Turkish
Date Range:
18th century-19th century
Extent:
63 items

10. Add MS 32556-32557

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE of Cox Macro
Scope & Content:
D.D., of Norton, in Suffolk, with many of the most eminent Literary men and artists of his time, particularly with Dr. Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, with some other papers; 1700-1764. Two volumes. The names of writers will be found in the Index. Paper; Quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1700-1764
Extent:
2 items