Egypt

Account by Sir Percy Loraine and list of books

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Shelfmark: MS. Eng. hist. d. 308

Account by Sir Percy Loraine and list of books, August-September 1929.

Extents: 87 Leaves

Dates: Aug-Sep 1929

Album du Musée de Boulaq by Hippolyte Béchard, 1872

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Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 62

Photographically-illustrated book showing artefacts from collections of the Boulaq Museum in Cairo. Photographs by Hippolyte and Emile Béchard. Text by Auguste Mariette.

Extents: 1 item

Dates: 1872

Gift of Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson Photographically-illustrated books and albums

Album of photographs of Malta and Egypt by Robert Murray, 1852

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Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 73

Album of albumen prints containing views of Malta and Egypt, primarily buildings and ruins, with titles and occasional commentary.

Extents: 1 item

Dates: 1852

Gift of Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson Photographically-illustrated books and albums

Archive of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell

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Papers and correspondence of James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell (1858-1941), diplomat, politician and poet, and of his wife, Lilias Rodd, née Guthrie.

Extents: 6.1 Linear metres (41 physical shelfmarks)

Dates: 1758-1951

Archive of Michael Davies

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Political and administrative drafts and papers of Michael Davies (b. 1944), senior United Nations civil servant.

Extents: 0.9 Linear metres (6 boxes)

Dates: 1961-2012

Chronographia Asiatica & Ægyptiaca ab orbe condito ad Alexandrum Magnum ad fidem scriptorum vetustissimorum restituta & illustrata

Single Item

Shelfmark: MS. Add. D. 13

Chronographia Asiatica & Ægyptiaca ab orbe condito ad Alexandrum Magnum ad fidem scriptorum vetustissimorum restituta & illustrata, written in 1753-1761 by C. Hayes and E. Yardley.

Extents: 285 Leaves

Dates: Written in 1753-1761 by C. Hayes and E. Yardley

Copy in unidentified hand of Jean Francois Champollion, Précis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1828), with (fols. ii-vii) notes on the manuscript by Aubrey J. Topping, York Herald

Single Item

Shelfmark: MS. French d.38

Copy in unidentified hand of Jean Francois Champollion, Précis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1828)

Extents: 410 Leaves

Dates: n.d. [mid 19th century], 1948

Diaries of William Raw

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Shelfmark: MS. 15468

Diaries of William Raw.

Extents: 4 Volumes

Dates: 1916-1918

Memoir by John Saunders, of work with Friends Relief Service and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Egypt and Greece, 1944-1995

Single Item

Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 6037, fols. 78-91

Memoir, 1997, by John Saunders, of work with Friends Relief Service and UNRRA in Egypt and Greece, 1944-1995.

Extents: 16 Leaves

Dates: 1997

Papers of Sir Archibald Alison

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Papers of Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet (1826-1907).

Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (8 boxes)

Dates: 1849-1907

Photo-Pictures from the Lands of the Bible by Francis Frith, 1866

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Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 64

Photographic portfolio of views of the Middle East, accompanied by verses from the Bible and religious scripture. Credited to Francis Frith, but the photographs were most likely by Frank Mason Good, Frith's photographer in the Middle East.

Extents: 1 item

Dates: 1866

Gift of Michael G. and C. Jane Wilson Photographically-illustrated books and albums