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‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’

Title	‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’
Author	Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell
Publication Date:	19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911 (CE, Gregorian)
Type	Document
Language	ara,eng,grc,syr
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Pages Count	37
Library:	Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID	Add MS 45158 B
Record ID	vdc_100000001250.0x000177
Library Location	British Library: Western Manuscripts
Date	19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes	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.
Erişim Koşulları	Unrestricted
ilgili birincil kaynaklar	For accounts of Bell’s 1911 journey, see The Letters of Gertrude Bell , ed. Lady Bell, i, 1927, pp. 266-306, M. R. Ridley, Gertrude Bell , 1941, pp. 102-118, and Josephine Kamm, Daughter of the Desert , 1956, pp. 119-120.

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‘Diary of Gertrude Bell, 1911.’

Author Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell

Publication Date 19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911 (CE, Gregorian)

Type Document

Language ara,eng,grc,syr

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Pages Count 37

Library Qatar Digital Library

Library Asset ID Add MS 45158 B

Record ID vdc_100000001250.0x000177

Library Location British Library: Western Manuscripts

Date 19 Apr 1911-23 May 1911 (CE, Gregorian)

Notes 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.

Erişim Koşulları Unrestricted

ilgili birincil kaynaklar For accounts of Bell’s 1911 journey, see The Letters of Gertrude Bell , ed. Lady Bell, i, 1927, pp. 266-306, M. R. Ridley, Gertrude Bell , 1941, pp. 102-118, and Josephine Kamm, Daughter of the Desert , 1956, pp. 119-120.