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1. EAP1142/1/1/167

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1142/1/1/167
Title:
Nel Battesimo e Matrimonio della signora et signore Sanguinazzi
Scope & Content:
Industrial paper; black ink; loose pages kept in an envelope belonging to the monastery of St Catherine in Alexandria. Extent: 13 pp. Size and dimensions of original material: 14x22.5 cm. Condition of original material: Good. Arrangement: In the library's storage; on the metal movable shelve...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
14 TIFF images

2. IOR/R/19/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/12
Title:
Accounts: 'EGYPT AND RED SEA. 35. 1838-69'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains accounts, and correspondence received by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, HM Consul-General and the East India Company’s Agent in Egypt at Alexandria, dated 5 February 1838-30 June 1869. The papers relate to events in Egypt and the Red Sea, and include: Tabulated schedul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1838-30 Jun 1869
Extent:
1 volume (504 folios)

3. IOR/R/19/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/13
Title:
Accounts: 'EGYPT AND RED SEA. 36. 1838-69'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains accounts, and correspondence received by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, HM Consul-General and the East India Company’s Agent in Egypt at Alexandria, dated 1 January 1838-31 December 1869. The papers relate to events in Egypt and the Red Sea, and include: Tabulated sche...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jan 1838-31 Dec 1869
Extent:
1 volume (709 folios)

4. IOR/R/19/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/14
Title:
Accounts of the Agency and Deputy Agency in Egypt
Scope & Content:
The file contains duplicate accounts and correspondence received by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, HM Consul General and the East India Company’s Agent in Egypt at Alexandria, dated 30 September 1848-31 December 1869. The papers relate to events in Egypt and the Red Sea, and include: Tabula...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1848-31 Dec 1869
Extent:
1 file (174 folios)

5. IOR/R/19/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/22
Title:
Letters Received by the Agent in Egypt
Scope & Content:
This volume contains records of the expenses incurred and payments received by British agents and the Packet Agency at Cairo from 22 January 1838 to 8 November 1859. It includes the dates of the transactions, details of the transactions themselves, and the amounts of money given in piastres. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1838-8 Nov1859
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)

6. IOR/R/19/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/23
Title:
Egypt & Red Sea 38, 1838-59
Scope & Content:
This volume contains records of the expenses incurred and payments received by British agents and the Packet Agency at Cairo from 13 January 1838 to 30 September 1859. It includes the dates of the transactions, details of the transactions themselves, and the amounts of money given in Piastres. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1838-30 Sep 1859
Extent:
1 volume (661 folios)

7. IOR/R/19/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/24
Title:
Cairo Packet Agency A/C Current and Mail Charges, 1838-1859
Scope & Content:
This file is divided into two sections, titled 'Cairo Packet Agency, A/C Current' and 'Cairo Packet Agency, Mail Charges', and contains the accounts current and mail charges of the Cairo Packet Agency, from January 1838 through September and March 1859 respectively. The accounts current and mail...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1838- Sep 1859
Extent:
1 file (533 folios)

8. Papyrus 2098

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2098
Title:
Letter to Zenon (P.Lond. VII 1998, TM 1560)
Scope & Content:
Letter to Zenon from Glaucus, reporting on the comestibles delivered to stewards of Apollonius, the chief financial official (dioiketes), comprising gazelles, hares (alive and dead), goose eggs, turtle-doves (alive and dead), bunches of grapes. With original clay seal (TM Seal 974), possibly wit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
16 July 250 BC
Extent:

Papyrus sheet, light-brown, complete at the top and bottom, and damaged on the other sides, especially on the right (front); bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 5 lines written across the fibres, complete. Upper and lower margins are extant. The original clay seal is still attached on the right-hand side. On the back, there are a few words written along the fibres at the bottom. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.

9. Papyrus 2248

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2248
Title:
Tax Register (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987) and Letter from the Emperor Claudius to the Alexandrians (P.Lond. VI 1912v., TM 16850)
Scope & Content:
Recto (P.Lond. VI 1912r. descr., TM 91987): Unpublished tax register from Philadelpheia from 37/38, belonging to the tax archive of Nemesion, son of Zoilus, tax collector. Verso (P.Lond. VI 1912v., CPJ II 153, Sel.Pap. II 212, TM 16850): Column 1: Ends of lines from a register; Column 2: Edic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
37-41
Extent:

Long, yet imperfect roll, lacking the beginning, but well preserved as to the rest; written on both sides and housed in one glass case.

10. Papyrus 2344

Reference (shelfmark):
Papyrus 2344
Title:
Contract for Land Clearance (P.Cair.Zen. II 59182, TM 828)
Scope & Content:
Fragment of a contract before six witnesses in duplicate form, whereby some labourers acknowledge receipt of money from Zenon as a payment for the clearing of brushwood land. The labourers have the right to occupy and defend the land, and they should return it clean within twenty-one days. Shoul...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
4 October 255 BC
Extent:

Fragment of the same papyrus as two other fragments in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, inventoried as CG 59182; light-brown, complete at the top and bottom; bearing writing on both sides. On the front, there are 12 lines written across the fibres, lacking beginning and ends. Upper and lower margins are extant. The original clay seal is still preserved. On the back, there are a few words written along the fibres. The papyrus is housed in a glass frame.