'Journal', 1826-7
File
MS. Wilkinson dep. c. 6
Held at the Weston Library
'Journal', 1826-7, journeys from el-Qahireh [Cairo] to Suez, in the Eastern Desert, and in Upper Egypt, including occasional ink and pencil sketches, surveying calculations, diagrams and drawings, site plans, copies of hieroglyphic, Greek and Arabic inscriptions, and ink sketches of Egyptian tomb paintings, with:
- (pp. 25-7) humorous verse dialogue between two Copts
- (p. 29) dried plant
- (pp. 81-5) list of names of Egyptian deities in hieroglyphics, with English and Greek equivalents
- (pp. 124-5, 129) lists of Egyptian plants
- (p. 131-3) list of Egyptian birds and animals
- (pp. 166-7) sextant readings(?), Jan. 1827-Mar. 1828, Oct.-Dec. 1828.
Dates
- Creation: 1826-7
Extent
169 pages
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Wilkinson dep. c. 6
Former references:
'Eastern Desert to Thebes 1826' (W); C 8b (interim.)
Separated Materials
For loose papers found in this volume, see MSS. Wilkinson dep. c. 11, fols. 11-17; c. 22, fols. 1-13, 276-9, and c. 28, fol. 16.
Physical Facet
Binding: half brown calf.
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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