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1. Add MS 39055

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Add MS 39055
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LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXXV (ff. 73). Miscellaneous letters and papers,in general of extra large size, supplementary to preceding volumes; 1834-1883. The chief contents are: 1. Layard's articles of clerkship with Benjamin Austen, solicitor, of Gray's Inn, 20 Jan. 1834. f. 1. 2. Certificate of Lay...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1834-1883
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1 item

2. Add MS 39076

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LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CXLVI (ff. 55). 1. 'Notes to accompany Plans of excavations at Nimroud.' A rough draft of the notes to Plan III is in Add. MS. 39077, ff. 2-13, and a sketch of Plan III itself is in Add. MS. 39055, f. 27b. f. 1. 2. 'Description of Plan of Excavations in Kouyunjik.' f. 43. T...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1847
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 39077

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LAYARD PAPERS. CXLVII (ff. 161). Miscellaneous papers and accompts relating to A. H. Layard's excavations for the Trustees of the British Museum, circ. 1846-1851. Among them are: 1. Minutes of meeting of the Trustees, etc., signed by Rev. Josiah Forshall, Secretary, 1846, 1848. ff. 14, 29, 30. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
c 1846-c 1851
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 39078

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LAYARD. PAPERS. Vol. CXLVIII (ff. 55). Two volumes bound together, comprising, in A. H. Layard's hand: 1. Glossary of word-forms occurring in the Assyrian inscriptions. f. 1. 2. Copies of Median and Persian inscriptions, etc., chiefly from the works of N. L. Westergaard. f. 17. 3. Extracts f...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
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1 item

5. Add MS 39079-39080

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Add MS 39079-39080
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LAYARD PAPERS. Vols. CXLIX, CL (ff. 260, 221). Assyrian inscriptions. Two volumes, Vol. I containing transcripts, mostly by Layard, of many of the texts published in Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Character from Assyrian Monuments discovered by A. H. Layard, London, British Museum, 1851, arranged in the order of the printed volume, and other miscellaneous notes; and Vol. II a glossary of words occurring in inscriptions, cut from a printed work with MS. notes; circ. 1847-9. Folio and quarto.
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Nineveh, Assyria: Papers rel. to Sir A. H. Layard's excavations at: circ. 1845-1851. Assyria: Papers rel. to Sir A. H. Layard's excavations, etc., in: circ. 1845-1851. Antiquities: Papers of Sir A. H. Lavard rel. to his excavations in Assyria, etc.: 1840-1862.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1847-c 1849
Extent:
2 items

6. Add MS 39081

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LAYARD PAPERS. Vol. CLI (ff. 38). Translation, not in Layard's hand, of G. F. Grotefend's Anlage und Zerstörung der Gebäude zu Nimrud nach den Angaben in Layard's Nineveh (from Abhandlungen der K. Ges. der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Bd. v); Göttingen, 1851, pp. 1-38 (text and first appendix). ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 45360

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'SYRIA, ASSYRIA, & ARMENIA': the fourth volume of a series of pencil and water-colour sketches by the Rev. Solomon Caesar Malan on his journey from Alexandretta to Nineveh and Trebizond (mostly dated and in roughly chronological order, with titles and brief explanatory notes); 1 May-29 July 1850. English, with occasional notes in Arabic, Turkish, and Hebrew. Some of the scenes and people portrayed are described in his Philosophy or Truth?, 1865, pp. 87-96. For an account of his whole jou...
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Armenia: Drawings of Lake Van, Trebizond, etc.: 1850. Syria: Drawings of Antioch, Aleppo, etc., by S. C. Malan: 1850. Solomon Caesar al. César Jean Solomon Malan, DD; oriental and biblical scholar: Sketches of Syria, Assyria and Armenia: 1850. includes: ff. 24-60 passim Assyria: Drawings o...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 May 1850-29 Jul 1850
Extent:
1 item