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Notes on Manuscripts in the British Museum relating to Levant Geography and Travel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

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A not unprofitable search among the manuscripts of the British Museum for travellers' accounts of Cyzicus and its neighbourhood, has persuaded me that an annotated list of those manuscripts which deal with Levantine geography may be a useful contribution to the bibliography of travel. It is needless to say that this paper has no palaeographical pretensions; such points as the dates of handwriting have been for the most part supplied me by Mr. J. A. Herbert, to whom I am also indebted for much other assistance.

The MSS. I have examined fall generally into one of three rough classes:—

(1) Isolarii and accounts of individual Aegean islands.

(2) Voyages and travels to Constantinople.

(3) Travels in Asia Minor.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1906

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page 197 note 1 The Mediterranean, 1854, pp. 329 ff. Later additions to the series are, however, numerous, viz.: Add. 18,454 (1463), 31,315 (1469), 31,318 A. (1470); Eg. 2,855 (1473), 2,712 (xv cent.); Add. 9,810 (1502); Eg. 2,803 (1508), 2,857 (1520); Add. 19,927 (1536), 27,471 (1537), 22,348 (1538); Eg. 2,854 (1540); Add. 21,029 (1559); Eg. 2,856 (1562), 2,860 (1562), 2,858 (1570); Add. 31,317 (1573?); Add. 9,813 (c. 1600), 9,814, 21,592, 31,316 (xvi cent.); Eg. 2,861 (1623); Add. 31,319 (1629), 19,916 (1640), 22,618 (1642), 11,765 (1644), 19,976 (1650).

page 197 note 2 Buondelmonti (1420); Bartolommeo da li Sonetti ‘1485’ Bordone, 1548; Porcacchi, 1575 [G. Rosaccio (Viaggio da Venetia a Cos'poli), 1598] Boschini, 1658; Coronelli, c. 1685; Randolph, 1687; Piacenza, 1688; Dapper, 1688. A Turkish Isolano of 1520 is noticed by Herzog, R. in Athen. Mitt. xxvii. 417430, Pl. XV.Google Scholar

page 197 note 3 L. de Sinner, Lipsiae, 1827, with reproductions of two maps. E. Legrand, Paris, 1897 (Vol. i., containing the Greek text of the Seraglio MS. with a French translation, and reproductions of sixteen of the maps: the promised commentary has not been published). To the bibliography of Buondelmonti given in Bürchner's, L. review of Legrand's edition (Byz. Zeitschr. x. 1901, 230)Google Scholar add the recent articles of Rubensohn, O. (Athen. Mitt. 1900, 343 ff.Google Scholar and Pl. V. Paros) and Jacobs, E. (Neues von Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Jahrb. des Inst. xx. 3945Google Scholar, Cristoforo Buondelmonti in Beiträge zur Bücherkunde und Philologie A. Wilmanns gewidmet (1903) 312–340).

page 198 note 1 Destruction of the Greek Empire, p. 437.

page 198 note 2 Pp. 268–9 (λιμὴν τῆς χρυσῆς πύλης)

page 198 note 3 P. 11.

page 199 note 1 ‘Reproduced 1863, “publicado pelo Conde de Levradio,” British Museum press-mark 920 (38)’ [note in volume].

page 199 note 2 Pandectes Rerum Turcicarum § 24, cf. § 86.

page 200 note 1 Vol. ii. Letter 10.

page 202 note 1 Griechische Inseln 1. 27, especially note (9). Hopf also mentions a Chronique de Naxie by Lichtle, (Giornale Ligustico, 1881, p. 27Google Scholar, note (3), p. 325, note (21) in his article in Ersch and Gruber s.v. Giustiniani), in the monastery of S. Lazarus at Naxos.

page 202 note 2 Dacier, J., Notice sur la vie, etc., 1806, p. 21Google Scholar, and Villoison's, report in Mém. de l'Ac. des Inscrr. xlvii. 283344.Google Scholar

page 202 note 3 See di Krienen, Pasch, Breve Descr. dell' Arcipelago, 1771, p. 79.Google Scholar

page 202 note 4 ῾Ιστορία καὶ Περιγραφὴ τῆς Νάξου ff. 88 in 410.

page 202 note 5 Adnot. in Ducae, Historiam, pp. 30, 51.Google Scholar

page 202 note 6 Histoire de Santorin, Paris, 1842.

page 203 note 1 ᾿Ανέκδοτος διήγησις περὶ τῆς ἐν ἔτει 1650 ἐκρήξεως. Δελτίον τῆς ῾Ιστορ. καὶ ᾿Εθνολ ῾Εταιρίας 2 (1885), 107–111: see also Nos. 830, 831 in Meliarakis, A., Νεοελληνικὴ Γεωγραφικὴ Φιλολογία, Athens, 1889.Google Scholar

page 203 note 2 Relation de ce qui est passé à Santerini, Paris, 1657.

page 203 note 3 Published in Nouveaux Mémoires des Missions du Levant, Paris, 1715. (Pègues), Stöcklein, Jos., Allerlei Briefschrifften … von denen Missionariis der Gesellsch. Jesu, Augsburg, 1727, Tom. ii. Th. ix. p. 72 ff.Google ScholarBousquet, P. A., Les Actes des Apótres Modernes, Paris, 1852, ii. pp. 166179Google Scholar, partly also in Pègues, op. cit. pp. 216 ff. An apparently unnoticed account of this eruption is given by de la Motraye, A. (Travels, Lond. 1743, i. 271–5)Google Scholar who was in the island during August 1707. He adds as Appendix xxv (pp. 411–413) an account by Antonio Delenda.

page 203 note 4 Papers relating to the history of Candia will be found in Add. 8636–8639 incl., 8641–2, 21,597, and 33,264. MS. views in the British Museum of Cretan fortresses etc. are enumerated by Gerola, , Monumenti Veneti di Creta pp. 44 ff.Google Scholar xxi, xxxi, xxxiv, xl, lvii, lxx, lxxiii, cii.

page 204 note 1 de Mely, F., Exuviae Sacrae Constantinopolitanae, iii. (La Croix, La Lance, La Couronne), p. 130.Google Scholar

page 204 note 2 Loc. cit. p. 172.

page 204 note 3 See the authorities quoted by Riant in Exuviae etc. vol. ii.

page 204 note 4 But his ibi may perhaps be taken more generally, meaning at Constantinople.

page 204 note 5 For this date see Mas-Latrie, , Les Princes de Morée, 1882, p. 26.Google Scholar

page 204 note 6 Legrand's preface, p. xxii.

page 205 note 1 Voigt, G., Die Wiederbelebung des kl. Alterthums, 1893.Google Scholar

page 205 note 2 Cf. Travels to Tana and Persia (Josafa Barbaro and others), Hakluyt Society, 1873.

page 207 note 1 Other log-books in the East Mediterranean are to be found in Sloane 1700, 1–79 (‘Riall Katern,’ Jno Smith, 1664–9); Sloane 2504, 178–210 (‘St. David,’ 1677–8); Kings 40 (‘Woolwich,’ Edmund Dummer, 1682, with drawings illustrating typical Levantine vessels, Venetian arsenals, etc.). Harl. 6843, 29 (Constantinople Marchant) is concerned with the East Indies, though placed with Turkish voyages in the classified catalogue.

page 208 note 1 London, 1904, pp. 71–3.

page 209 note 1 See The Three Brothers (Anon.), London, 1825, and Shirley, E. P., The Sherley Brothers, London, 1848Google Scholar, neither of which mentions the above papers. Sir Thomas Sherley's MS. Remarks upon Turkey are in the library of Lambeth Palace (‘514, cod. chart. 4to Saec. XVII. folior. 91’).

page 209 note 2 Biographical Sketches of the Chaplains to the Levant Company, Cambridge, 1883, p. 32, Luke's sermon before the Levant Co. exists in B.M. (Printed books), 226, g. 21.

page 209 note 3 Harl. 7021, ƒ. 414.

page 210 note 1 (c) and (d) are probably the journeys undertaken by Consul Paul Rycaut; the latter ‘enjoyed for his companion the Reverend Dr. John Luke, who was very useful and assistant to him in these observations.’ Account of the Greek and Armenian Churches, London, 1679, p. 80. Cf. Smith, Tho.Notitia Septem Ecclesiarum (1716), p. 17.Google Scholarde S. Martin, V. (Hist. des Découvertes Géogr. iii. p. 756, No. 64)Google Scholar gives the misleading date 1678, which was the year Rycaut left Smyrna. His place was taken by Ray, April 4, and he embarked April 11 (Harl. 7021, f. 409).

page 210 note 2 This I hope to publish as an appendix to my forthcoming work on Cyzicus.

page 211 note 1 Add. 22,910, 22,911.

page 211 note 2 Add. 22,912 (folio), 22,913 (12 mo), 22,914 (4to). Transcripts of Covel's letters and journals are in the Cambridge University Library (Mm. vi. 50–53).

page 211 note 3 Account of the Levant Company, London, 1825. Covel is also extensively quoted by Lethaby and Swainson, St. Sophia.

page 211 note 4 Much of this is however occupied by minute discussion of epigraphical detail.

page 211 note 5 Cf. Grelot, , Voyage à Constantinople, p. 75.Google Scholar

page 212 note 1 In company with Wheler and Pickering as far as Brusa. Cf. Wheler (1682), pp. 217, 233.

page 212 note 2 Reprinted from Georgirenes, J., Description of Samos, etc., Lond. 1678.Google Scholar

page 212 note 3 State of the Greek and Armenian Churches, p. 216.

page 214 note 1 With this may be compared the map of G. Sideris (1563) published by Sathes (Mon. Hist. Hell. ii).

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