The second 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 19 April to 23 May 1911, covering the journey from the vicinity of Dara, in Turkey, to Bell’s arrival in Aleppo. 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 copies of Greek, Syriac, and Nabatean tomb inscriptions.The volume also includes:drawings depicting two anthropomorphic figures, possibly of stone carvings from a tomb at Kermati [Kayabali], above a drawing of three arches. All three drawings have dimensions indicated (ff 3v-4)Folios 25-37 are blank.1 volume (37 folios)Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with i, and terminates at the inside back cover with 38; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
min taʼlīf Khwajah Nasīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī = Euclidis Elementorum geometricorum libri tredecim / extraditione doctissimi Nasiridini Tusini nunc primum Arabicè impressi.First edition in Arabic.Arabic title romanized.Signatures: [1]-[50]⁴.Pages are numbered in numerals of the traditional Arabic font on p. 2-400 and also in modern Arabic numerals on p. 2, 7 (misnumbered 8), 8, and 25-400.Title and text within double line borders; title vignette."Maqālah al-ūlá ilá al-thālithah ʻashar" on top of double line borders of the page.Text in Arabic only.من تأليف خوجه نصير الدين الطوسي = Euclidis Elementorum geometricorum libri tredecim / extraditione doctissimi Nasiridini Tusini nunc primum Arabicè impressi.Microfilm: [S.l. : s.n, 1594] 1 microfilm reel.Electronic reproduction. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard College Library Digital Imaging Group, 2008. (Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Islamic Heritage Project).
Seven pieces of a palimpsest containing the Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana (corresponding to the Mandelbaum (1962) edition, pp. 127, 130-133, 135-144 and 177) written over a New Testament lectionary (the gospels; Matthew 10:2-15; John 20:11-15). The upper script is Hebrew with sparse Palestinian vocalisation, and has been dated to the 8th or 9th century by Allony and Diez-Macho (1958-1959: 58). The under script is a Greek biblical majuscule that has been dated to between the 6th and 9th centuries. Tchernetska (2002: 248-249) believes that the 6th-century date is more likely.Condition: Badly torn, holes, rubbedLayout: 13-20 lines