Printed book: William Tweedie, Turkish Arabia, 1886-1887.
- Reference:GB 227 msDS49.5T8
- Dates of Creation:1886-1887
- Name of Creator:
- Language of Material:Arabic English
- Physical Description:1 volume, 50pp of printed text. 66pp manuscript notes and newspaper cuttings.
Scope and Content
Colonel William Tweedie, Turkish Arabia being an account of an official tour in Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia, 1886-7.
Printed book with numerous manuscript marginal comments and interlineations, mostly of a philological nature, in the hands of Tweedie and others. Published Calcutta, 1888.
Administrative / Biographical History
Colonel William Tweedie, C.S.I., Bengal Staff Corps, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and H.M.'s Consul-General at Baghdad. He also wrote The Arabian Horse, his Country and People, with Portraits of Typical or Famous Arabians and Other Illustrations (1894), a study of the Arabian horse and the Arab people, written while in Baghdad between 1885-1891.
Arrangement
Single item
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
Presented to the Library by Major General W Tweedie, 1908.
Note
Call number used to be ms1402
Other Finding Aids
Individual Manuscripts and Small Collections database available as part of Manuscripts Database.
Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements
Binding: red morocco. Paper: 21x33cm
Archivist's Note
Description compiled by Maia Sheridan, Archives Hub project archivist, based on material from the Manuscripts Database
Conditions Governing Use
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Accruals
None
Subjects
Personal Names