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Add MS 45158 A
- Record Id:
- 040-002017852
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002017851
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001250.0x000176
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100043125177.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 45158 A
- Title:
- ‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
- Scope & Content:
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The first 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 9 February to 18 April 1911, covering Bell’s departure from Damascus to the vicinity of Dara, Turkey. The notes record: places passed or visited; times of arrival and departure; temperature and atmospheric pressure readings; some description of the topographic character of the places passed through; and a number Arabic aphorisms and inscriptions.
The volume also includes:
- descriptions of architecture and mosaics in Damascus, including Malik ez Zahir [Az-Zahiriyah library] (ff 1-3)
- a plan of an unnamed and unidentified building (f 14v)
- five signatures, belonging to the German archaeologists Walter Andrae, Conrad Preusser, Walter Bachmann, Paul Maresch, and Julius Jordan (f 23)
- two profiles, with measurements indicated, of gate mouldings at Dara (f 32)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002017851
040-002017852 - Is part of:
- Add MS 45158 A-C : Oblong duodecimo notebooks, map and list of buildings, belonging to Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
Add MS 45158 A : ‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-002017851[0001]/040-002017852
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 45158 A-C
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (33 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000001250.0x000176
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1911
- End Date:
- 1911
- Date Range:
- 9 Feb 1911-18 Apr 1911
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with i, and terminates at the inside back cover with 33; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
The file has two foliation anomalies f 25A, and f 32A.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)