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1. Add MS 14256-14259

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Add MS 14256-14259
Title:
Journeys by Dr. Richard Pococke, Lord Bishop of Ossory
Scope & Content:
A JOURNEY round Scotland to the Orkneys, and through parts of England and Ireland, by Dr. Richard Pococke, Lord Bishop of Ossory, 1760; illustrated with drawings;-Notes of a Tour, by the same, from Andover to Stonehenge and Salisbury, April, 1736;-Account by the same, of some Antiquities about O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Syriac
Date Range:
1736-1760
Extent:
4 items

2. Add MS 14425

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Add MS 14425
Title:
[Pentateuch]
Scope & Content:
Four books of the Pentateuch according to the tradition encapsulated in the Peshíṭtā, as follows: ff. 1v-60r : Genesis [ܣܦܪܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ ܒܪܝܬܐ]; ff. 60r-115v : Exodus [ܡܦܩܢܐ - ܣܦܪܐ ܕܬܪܝܢ ܕܐܘܪܝܬܐ]; ff.116v-117r : Numbers [ܡܢܝܢܐ - ܣܦܪܐ ܕܐ̈ܪܒܥܐ ܕܐܘܪܝܬܐ]; ff. 117r-230v : Deuteronomy [ܬܢܝܢ ܢܡܘܣܐ ܣܦܪܐ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Syriac
Date Range:
464
Extent:

1 text, 230 ff.

3. Add MS 14425-14741

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Add MS 14425-14741
Title:
Manuscripts obtained from the Syrian Monastery of St. Mary Deipara, in the Desert of Nitria, or Scete
Scope & Content:
They form the larger portion of the same collection, of which a part was previously obtained in 1841: see Add MS 12134-12181
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Persian, and Syriac
Date Range:
5th century-14th century
Extent:
317 items

4. Add MS 17102-17274

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Add MS 17102-17274
Title:
Syriac Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
No. 17,102 to No. 17,274 inclusive, wereobtained from the Monastery of St. Mary Deipara, in the desert of Nitria, and form a part of the same Collection, portions of of which have been previously catalogued. [See Add. MSS.12,134-12,181 and 14,425-14,741]
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Syriac
Date Range:
5th century-1826
Extent:
173 items

5. Add MS 17212

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Add MS 17212
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Scope & Content:
PART of a Syriac manuscript, consisting of thirteen leaves, containing Sermons of Chrysostom on the forty days'' fast, on the human nature of Christ, and on the contention of our Lord with Satan ; written, probably, in the xith century, over the text of a Latin Grammarian (the portion legible tr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Syriac
Date Range:
11th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 38931-39164

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Add MS 38931-39164
Title:
THE LAYARD PAPERS. CORRESPONDENCE and papers, private and official, of Sir Austen Henry Layard, P.C., G.C.B., D.C.L., the discoverer of Nineveh (b. 1817, d. 1894). From 1842 to 1845 he was unofficially employed on diplomatic missions by Sir S. Canning, afterw. (1852) Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, British Ambassador at Constantinople; he was an unpaid attaché at the Embassy 1847-1849, and a paid attaché 1849-1852. His excavations in Assyria were begun in Oct. 1845 for Lord Stratford and co...
Scope & Content:
Sir Austen Henry Layard, GCB; diplomatist and archaeologist: Official and private correspondence and papers.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, Syriac, and Turkish
Date Range:
[19th century]
Extent:
248 items

7. Add MS 38987-38996

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Add MS 38987-38996
Title:
LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. LVI1-LXVI. General Correspondence (including minutes) of A. H. Layard during the years 1861-1869, while M.P. for Southwark, Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under (a) the 1st Earl Russell and (b) the 4th Earl of Clarendon, and First Commissioner of Works (Dec. 1868-Oct. 1869). Some drafts of his replies are among the letters. The volumes from 38992, f. 164, onwards include a long correspondence relating to the erection of the Albert Memorial in...
Scope & Content:
Victoria of England: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. H. Layard as Under Sec. for Foreign Affairs, First Commissioner of Works, etc.: 1852-1869.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, and Syriac
Date Range:
1861-1869
Extent:
10 items

8. Add MS 45158 A-C

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Add MS 45158 A-C
Title:
Oblong duodecimo notebooks, map and list of buildings, belonging to Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
Scope & Content:
two volumes of notes, made on a trip from Damascus via Baghdad to Aleppo in 1911 (Add MS 45158 A-B) a map of the locations of villages in western Syria, possibly dating from 1905, and an undated list of buildings for David George Hogarth (Add MS 45158 C)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
3 items (72 folios)

9. Add MS 45158 B

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Add MS 45158 B
Title:
‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Scope & Content:
The second of two oblong duodecimo volumes containing abbreviated notes recorded by Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, during the course of a journey through Syria, Turkey and Iraq, from Damascus to Aleppo via Baghdad. The volume covers the period 19 April to 23 May 1911, covering the journey from...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, Greek, Ancient, and Syriac
Date Range:
19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911
Extent:
1 volume (37 folios)

10. Add MS 88942

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Add MS 88942
Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

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