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202. Add MS 18817
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- Add MS 18817
- Title:
- SELECTIONS from the Fathers, comprising sermons and treatises of Evagrius, Xystus, John the Monk, Jacob of Batnae, and Ephraim. At the end are some palimpsest leaves in a later hand, containing two sermons of John the Monk and Marcus the Monk, and a letter of Philoxenus. Syriac. (Imperfect.) Vellum; VIIIth or IXth cent. Quarto. Add. 18,817.
- Scope & Content:
- Palimpsests: Syriac: 8th or 9th cent. Theology Syriac: Selections from the Fathers.: Syriac. Sixtus II; Pope: Sermons.: Syriac. Philoxenus, Bishop of Mabug: Letter.: Syriac. Mark, the Monk: Sermons.: Syriac. John, the Monk: Sermons: Syriac. Mar Jacob, Bishop of Batnæ: Sermons.: Syriac. Ev...
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Syriac
- Date Range:
- 8th century-9th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
203. Add MS 18818
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- Add MS 18818
- Title:
- CYRIL of Alexandria on Worship in spirit and in truth, books I.-VIII. Syriac. (Imperfect.) Vellum; VIIIth cent. Quarto. [Add. 18,818.]
- Scope & Content:
- Saint Cyril,; Patriarch of Alexandria: On worship in spirit and in truth.: Syriac.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Syriac
- Date Range:
- 8th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
204. Add MS 18820
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- Add MS 18820
- Title:
- FRAGMENTS of two Service-books. Syriac. Vellum; XIIth cent. Folio and Large Quarto. [Add. 18,820.]
- Scope & Content:
- Liturgies Syriac: Fragments of two Service-books.: Syriac.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Syriac
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
205. Add MS 18821
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- Add MS 18821
- Title:
- FRAGMENTS of a volume containing the Poems and Epistles of Gregory Nazianzen, and Scholia of Olympiodorus of Alexandria on Aristotle. Syriac. Vellum; IXth or Xth cent. Large Quarto. [Add. 18,821.]
- Scope & Content:
- Olympiodorus, of Alexandria: Scholia on Aristotle.: Syriac. Saint Gregorius,; Nazianzenus: Discourses, sermons, and poems.: Syriac. Aristoteles, Stagirita, Philosophus; obiit anno ante Christum 322: Scholia of Olympiodorus on.: Syriac.
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Syriac
- Date Range:
- 9th century-10th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
206. 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
207. 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
208. 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)
209. 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)
210. 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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