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121. Add MS 37448-37471

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JOURNALS, correspondence and other papers of Joseph Hékékyan Bey, an Armenian in the Egyptian service, 1829-1874, including records and sketches of archaeological excavations in Egypt. Hékékyan was born circ. 1807, the son of a translator in the service of Mehemet Ali, who paid for his education in England, at Stonyhurst College and elsewhere, and his training in engineering and manufactures, 1818-1830. On his arrival in Egypt he was employed in superintending cotton factories, technical sch...
Scope & Content:
Joseph Hékékyan, Bey: Journals, correspondence and papers: 1829-1874. Egypt: Journals, correspondence, etc., of Hékékyan Bey: 1829-1874.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Armenian, English, French, German, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1829-1874
Extent:
24 items

122. Add MS 37516

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WOODEN TABLET, Slightly whitened and with ruled lines, for use in a Greek school in Egypt. At one end is a projecting knob, with a hole bored through it, by which the tablet could be hung from a nail on the wall. On one side is a paradigm of the optative and participles of the verb ---------------- on the other a series of variants of the sentence ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Scope & Content:
Greek MSS: Greek MSS: 3rd cent. Tablets: Tablet for school use.: 3rd cent.: Gr. Grammar: Exercises in Greek grammar on wooden tablet: 3rd cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Modern
Date Range:
3rd century
Extent:
1 item

123. Add MS 37842-37935

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WINDHAM PAPERS: official and private correspondence and papers of William Windham, Secretary at War. (with a seat in the Cabinet) 1794-1801, Secretary of State for War 1806-1807 (d. 4 June, 1810). Windham was for a few weeks Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1783. He was M.P. for Norwich 1784-1802, St. Mawes 1802-1806, New Romney 1806 (his election for Norfolk in the same month was declared void), and Higham Ferrers 1807-1810. In 1785 he took part with James Sadler in on...
Scope & Content:
William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Windham Papers, political and private correspondence and papers. Army; England: Correspondence and papers of W. Windham as Secretary at War, etc.: 1782-1810.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
[1660-1845]
Extent:
97 items

124. Add MS 38523-38524

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Title:
CORRESPONDENCE of Leigh Hunt, supplementing Add. MSS. 38108-38111 noticed above
Scope & Content:
Two volumes. Vol. I (ff. 252), 1807-1844. Vol. II (ff. 277), 1845-1859. The names of the writers are given in the Index. Many of the earlier letters are addressed to Hunt as editor of the Examiner; some of those in 1819 and following years refer to Byron and the Shelleys, including letters of Ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1807-1859
Extent:
2 items

125. Add MS 38890

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Siege of Vienna, Ἀποκλεισμὸς τῆς Βιέννης, an account of the siege by Turks in 1683, translated from Italian into Modern Greek by Jeremias Cacavelas
Scope & Content:
Siege of Vienna, Ἀποκλεισμὸς τῆς Βιέννης, an account of the siege by Turks in 1683, translated from Italian into Modern Greek by Jeremias Cacavelas.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Modern
Date Range:
1686
Extent:
54 folios

126. Add MS 38931-39164

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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

127. Add MS 39583-39671

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PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS. These eighty-nine MSS., 39583-39671, were bequeathed, with Oriental MSS. 8729-8855, by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917), having been part of the collection formed at Parham, co. Sussex, by the Hon. Robert Curzon, afterwards 14th Baron Zouche, as the result of his travels in the Levant, etc., in 1833 and later. A copy of his Catalogue of Materials for Writing, ... Rolls and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books (1849), with manuscript additions, accompani...
Scope & Content:
Parham MSS: Collected at Parham House, co. Suss., by R. Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (d. 1873) and bequeathed by Darea, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917). Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche: Notes by.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, Flemish, French, Greek, Modern, Irish, Latin, and Slavic languages
Date Range:
[800-1899]
Extent:
89 items

128. Add MS 39794-39808

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BAX RUBBINGS AND PAPERS. Rubbings of monumental brasses and stones, mainly in England, collected by Alfred Ridley Bax, with notes, pedigrees, etc., 19th-20th centt. The names of persons and places are given in the index. Eleven volumes and many rolls. Bequeathed by the collector.
Scope & Content:
Genealogies: A. R. Bax, pedigrees: 19th-20th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century-20th century
Extent:
150 items

129. Add MS 39929-39936

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TWINING PAPERS. Correspondence and papers of the family of Twining; 1760-1884. Mainly the correspondence of the Rev. Thomas Twining (1735-1804), M.A., Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, afterw. Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester, and translator of " Aristotle on Poetry," with his halfbrother Richard Twining I (1749-1824), tea merchant, of Devereux Court, Strand, and other members of the family, and with Dr. Charles Burney, the musician. Selections from the correspondence, which includ...
Scope & Content:
Twining family: Correspondence and papers: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1760-1884
Extent:
8 items

130. Add MS 40626

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Title:
CASSIOBURY PAPERS. Vol. II. Court-book of the halimote of Cashio manor, in Watford, co. Hertf., 1238-1460: a volume similar to the preceding. For some of the rolls used in the compilation see Hist. MSS. Comm., Rep. on various Collections, vii, pp. 302, 306. The original portion, executed in Mote's cellarership, beg. "Extracta rotulorum . . . Halimot' apud Kaysho in octabis apostolorum Petri et Pauli anno r.r. Henrici XXII" [6 July 1238], but there are gaps due to loss (or, as at f. 15, illeg...
Scope & Content:
Watford, Hertfordshire: Court-book of Cashio al. Cassiobury manor in: from 1238 to 1460; 14th-15th centt. St. Alban's Abbey; Hertfordshire: Court-book of Cashio manor, in Watford, bel. to: 1238-1460.: Lat. John Mote, Cellarer of St. Alban's Abbey: Books of extracts from court-rolls made for: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
1238-1460
Extent:
1 item

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