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Add MS 4824
- Record Id:
- 040-001779845
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002110330
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0000f3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 4824
- Title:
- Geographical and antiquarian notes relating to Greece and Asia Minor, compiled by Arthur Pullinger, an English merchant in Aleppo
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002110330
040-001779845 - Is part of:
- Add MS 4811-4827 : POCOCKE COLLECTION
Add MS 4824 : Geographical and antiquarian notes relating to Greece and Asia Minor, compiled by Arthur Pullinger, an English merchant in Aleppo - Contains:
- Add MS 4824, f 1 : Title-page 'Antient (sic) Geography collected by Arthur Pullinger late merchant in Aleppo about the year 1740'.
Add MS 4824, ff 2-109 : Text mainly in English with transcriptions of inscriptions and some names of cities in classical Greek and/or Latin.
Add MS 4824, ff 110-112 : A Journal of a Journey from Aleppo to Constantinople in 1738/1739.
Add MS 4824, f 113 : 'Greek inscriptions in Athens on the seats at the Theater of Bacchus or above them'.
Add MS 4824, ff 114r-v : 'Initial lines of inscriptions at Thyatira'.
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- 032-002110330[0012]/040-001779845
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 4811-4827
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 5 items
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_4824 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1728
- End Date:
- 1739
- Date Range:
- c 1733-1739
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Paper.
- Foliation: ff 1-114 (older ink foliation crossed out).
- Dimensions: 335 x 225 mm.
- Scribal features: Two hands, one for the main text, and another to fill gaps omitted deliberately by the first, including place-names or words in Greek. The text of ff 2-119 is usually on the recto folios only.
- Binding: Half goat leather binding with brown cloth and corners.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Bequeathed by Revd. Richard Pococke, Bishop of Meath, 5 June 1767
- Publications:
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- F. W. Hasluck, 'Notes on Manuscripts in the British Museum relating to Levant Geography and Travel', The Annual of the British School at Athens, 12 (1905-06), pp. 196-215 (p. 213).
- The British Library Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts, 1756-1782 (London, 1977), pp. 229-30.
- G. Salt, 'Two Eighteenth-century Manuscripts on the Geography of the Levant', British Library Journal, 5 (1979), pp. 151-157 (p. 152).
- T. Drew-Bear, C. Naour and R. S. Stroud, 'Arthur Pullinger: an Early Traveler in Syria and Asia Minor', Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 75.3 (1985), pp. 1-80.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)