JOHANN MICHAEL WANSLEBEN'S TRAVELS IN THE LEVANT, 1671-74.
Johann Michael Wansleben's Travels in the Levant, 1671-1674 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Egypt and the Levant by the German scholar traveller Wansleben, or Vansleb (as he was known in France). He set out for the East in 1671 to collect manuscripts and antiqui...
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
[S.l.] :
BRILL,
2018.
Series:
The History of Oriental Studies
4.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353343.
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Call Number: DS47 .J64 2018
| Summary: | Johann Michael Wansleben's Travels in the Levant, 1671-1674 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Egypt and the Levant by the German scholar traveller Wansleben, or Vansleb (as he was known in France). He set out for the East in 1671 to collect manuscripts and antiquities for the French king and also produced the best study of the Copts to have appeared to date. This book recounts his travels in Syria, Turkey and Egypt, his everyday life in Cairo, and his anthropological and archeological discoveries which include the Graeco-Roman Ǧabbārī cemetery in Alexandria, the Roman city of Antinopolis on the Nile, the Coptic monastery of St Anthony on the Red Sea and the Red and White monasteries in Upper Egypt. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 512 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004362154 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |