Dissertation on Sir Gilbert de Lannoy’s A Survey of Egypt and Syria
Reference code
SAL/01/02/21/01
Title
Dissertation on Sir Gilbert de Lannoy’s A Survey of Egypt and Syria
Level of description
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Scope and content
Manuscript dissertation by the Rev John Webb FSA, based on a translation of a survey of Egypt and Syria produced by Sir Gilbert de Lannoy in 1422. The original manuscript which the work is translated from early French is in the Bodleian Library.
Mentioned in the minutes for 17 May 1821: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.034.122
The transcription was published in Archaeologia Vol. 21, 1827, pp. 281-444: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/xxv-a-survey-of-egypt-and-syria-undertaken-in-the-year-1422-by-sir-gilbert-de-lannoy-knt-translated-from-a-manuscript-in-the-bodleian-library-at-oxford-with-an-introductory-dissertation-and-notes-of-illustration-and-reference-to-the-croisades-by-the-rev-john-webb-ma-fsa-addressed-to-henry-ellis-esq-frs-secretary/92C6086FC1723FDC31D6A17CB776281B
Mentioned in the minutes for 17 May 1821: https://collections.sal.org.uk/sal.02.034.122
The transcription was published in Archaeologia Vol. 21, 1827, pp. 281-444: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeologia/article/xxv-a-survey-of-egypt-and-syria-undertaken-in-the-year-1422-by-sir-gilbert-de-lannoy-knt-translated-from-a-manuscript-in-the-bodleian-library-at-oxford-with-an-introductory-dissertation-and-notes-of-illustration-and-reference-to-the-croisades-by-the-rev-john-webb-ma-fsa-addressed-to-henry-ellis-esq-frs-secretary/92C6086FC1723FDC31D6A17CB776281B
Creator
Webb, John (1776 -1869), Rector of Tretire