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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8658
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Scope & Content:: PAPERS RELATING TO SYRIA, LEBANON, THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, AND ANTIOCH; 1745-1769. Italian, and Latin. Archival copies, partly printed. Ristretti di ponenze and other papers relating to these territories, and in particular to the relationships between the Latin Church and the Melchites, the Cathol...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1745-1769
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8781
Title:: GIUSEPPE LUIGI ASSEMANI: Travel Journal to Egypt and the Middle East; 1744-1745. Italian. Autograph. Giuseppe Luigi Assemani (circa 1710-1782), a naturalised Italian from a Syrian Maronite family, was professor of Syriac and Oriental liturgy at the Catholic University 'La Sapienza' in Rome from 1737; cf. Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. i (1907), pp. 794-795, and DBI, 4 (1962), pp. 436-437. He was also the brother of Giuseppe Simone Assemani, orientalist and Librarian of the Vatican Library, for ...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Tacketed full vellum binding on semi-limp pasteboards: 1744-1745. Egypt: Palestine: Syria: Lebanon: Travel journal by G. L. Assemani rel. to: 1744-1745: Ital. Voyages and Travels: Giuseppe Luigi Assemani, Professor of Syriac and Oriental liturgy: Diaries and Memoranda: Travel...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1744-1745
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 19311
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III. "Relazione del viaggio fatto in Soria da Moisè Caputo, l'anno 1733;" travels to the Holy Land, etc., from Florence, Sept. 1733- March 1735. [Add. 19,311.] Syria: Viaggio fatto in Soria da M. Caputo: 1733. Moisè Caputo: Viaggio in Syria: 1733.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1733
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 22911
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Scope & Content:: VOL. II. 1. Letters to Dr. Covel from Humfrey Wanley; London, Wimpole, 30 Aug. 1701-10 Apr. 1716, ff. 1, 8, 141-146, 155, 159-165, 170, 174-178, 185, 188, 190, 196, 206, 208, 211. Johannes Schult, Suecus; Cambridge, London, Upsal, 22 Apr. 1702-1 Jan. 1703. Lat. ff. 12-19, 25, 30, 36. J[ohn] Wood...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, English, Old, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 17 Nov 1655-29 Nov 1748
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27611-27613
Title:: CATALOGUES of coins by John Henry Ott; containing the coins of the Jews, Saniaritans, and Phoenicians, and of the Macedonian, Syrian, Egyptian, Armenian, Parthian, and other kings, followed [Vol. i. f. 197] by coins with Greek inscriptions of various cities, arranged according to the Greek alphabet; with engravings, drawings, and a few impressions in wax. Autograph. Three volumes. In Vol. i. f. 1, is an index and table. Paper; xviiith cent. Folio.
Scope & Content:: Jews: Catalogue of Jewish coins, by J. B. Ott and J. H. Ott: 18th cent. Syria: Catalogues of coins of, by the Rev. J. H. Ott: 18th cent. Phoenicia: Catalogue of the coins of, by Rev. J. H. Ott: 18th cent. Kingdom of Parthia: Catalogue of the coins of: 18th cent. Macedonia: Catalogue of coins...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 27615
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Scope & Content:: CATALOGUES of coins by John Henry Ott and his father, John Baptist Ott, viz.:-"Nummi argentei" of the Jews, Greeks, Roman consuls and emperors, etc., by J. B. Ott, f. 1;-coins of Syria, f. 34 -coins of various cities and provinces, f. 61;-coins of Smyrna, f. 111;-coins of the Emperor Augusttus, ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30274
Title:: " COINS of the Seleuoidæ, Kings of Syria." London, 1803. The printed work; with MS. corrections by Professor Richard Porson (ff. 146 b-149 b) of a translation of the inscription on the Rosetta Stone. On the fly-leaves are memoranda by Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke, 10 Feb. 1806. Paper; ff. 158. Quarto. Presented by the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas.
Scope & Content:: Syria: Coins of the Seleucidæ, Kings of Syria: 1803: Printed. Seleucidæ; Kings of Syria: Coins of: 1803.: Printed. Rosetta Stone: Notes by R. Porson on a translation of: 1803. Numismatics: Coins of the Seleucidæ: 1803.: Printed. includes: ff. 1, 158 Edward Daniel Clarke, traveller: Memorand...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1803-10 Feb 1806
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30413
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XVII. Voyages and Travels: George Smith's travels in Syria and Mesopotamia: 1873, 1874, 1876. Syria: George Smith's notes of travels in: 1873, 1874, 1876. Mesopotamia: Notes of travels in, by G. Smith: 1873, 1874, 1876.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1873-1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 30425
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Scope & Content:: Vol. XXIX. Voyages and Travels: George Smith's travels in Syria and Mesopotamia: 1873, 1874, 1876. Topography Collections of Drawings: Views and antiquities in Syria and Mesopotamia, by G. Smith: 1876. Syria: George Smith's notes of travels in: 1873, 1874, 1876. Mesopotamia: Notes of travels...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1873-1876
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 34199
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Scope & Content:: Vol. III. (ff. 125). Syria and Palestine; 1837-38. Two articles, entitled " Voyage de Homs à Palmyre et retour " and " Apercus généraux sur la Syrie," and based on the contents of this volume , were published by the Comto de Caraman in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie, 2nd series, vol. x...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1837-1838
Extent:: 1 item

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