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Rudolf-Ernest Brünnow Papers
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Overview and metadata sections
German Semitic philologist, Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow (1858-1917) was a professor of Semitics at Princeton (post-1910) in Greek, Latin, German, French, Turkish, Assyrian, and English.
Consists of notes, photographs, inscriptions, tables, and descriptions by Brünnow, Princeton professor of Semitics post-1910, in Greek, Latin, German, French, Turkish, Assyrian, and English. The collection contains six volumes of descriptions of Roman monuments, two volumes of historical inscriptions, three volumes of chronological tables of the Roman period (AD 312-AD 640), ten volumes of photographs and description of sites in Arabia, used in the preparation of Die Provincia Arabia auf Grund Zweier in den Jahren 1897 und 1898... (1904-1909) by Brünnow and Alfred v. Domasweski, fourteen volumes of notes and quotations concerning Syria and Persia, and five volumes of notes taken when he was a student at Strasbourg in 1876-1878. There are miscellaneous single volumes including a dictionary of Assyrian ideographs, a geographic index of northern Syria, Phoenician inscriptions, a Middle Eastern time-line (800 B.C. - 200 A.D.), and a bibliography of the geography of Palestine. Also present is a small group of letters (1909-1914) in Arabic to Brünnow from Markus al Batarsi mostly concerning social life at the end of the Ottoman Empire.
A concomitant series consists of a group of approximately 850 photographs (formerly in 14 volumes) by the French photographer Felix Bonfils (1831-1885) and his firm of the Levant ("Die Provencia Arabia"), including Lebanon, Jerusalem, Damascus, Greece, Baalbek, and the Dead Sea area. [For more on this section, see the record for Bonfils photographs.]
From the Brunnow library. Babylonian Historical Inscription Autograph Manuscript is AM 13742.
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Subject
- Akkadian language. -- Dictionaries
- Chronology, Roman
- Geography -- Palestine. -- Bibliography
- Historic sites -- Arabian Peninsula
- Photography -- Middle East -- History. -- Sources -- 19th century
- Semitic languages
- Inscriptions, Greek
- Inscriptions, Latin
Place
- Arabian Peninsula. -- photographs
- Athens (Greece) -- photographs
- Damascus (Syria). -- photographs
- Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan). -- photographs
- Greece -- photographs
- Italy -- Antiquities, Roman.
- Jerusalem. -- photographs
- Jordan. -- photographs
- Lebanon. -- photographs
- Middle East. -- photographs
- Palestine. -- photographs
- Syria -- Description and travel. -- 19th century
- Syria. -- photographs
- Turkey -- Social conditions -- 1288-1918.
- West Bank. -- photographs
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 1999
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Inventory
The number and description are taken directly from captions on each photograph; the descriptions have not been edited and appear exactly as they do in the captions on the photographs.
Formerly in volumes 1-14, transferred to boxes 1-33
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Consists of photographs of Palmyra, Baalbek, and Lebanon, including Forteresse d'Alep, Arc de Triomphe et Colonnade (Palmyra), and Temple de Dioclétien.
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(creates panoramic view with photograph 816)
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Consists of photographs of Judaea, including Pool of Manmillah, The Well of Job, The Garden of Gethsemane, and Tomb of David on Mount Zion, as well as others.
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(creates panoramic view with photograph 839)
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Consists of photographs of Samaria and Galilee, including Ruines du Kahn-Loubban, Tomb of the Patriarch Joseph, Nazareth from the road to Cana, and Fountain of Cana in Galilee, as well as others.
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Consists of photographs of Greece including Prison de Socrate, Les Propylées et la tour Venitienne, Detail intérieur du théâtre de Bacchus, and Parthénon, as well as others.
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(Untitled view of the Temple of Jupiter with the Acropolis in the background)
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(Untitled view of the Temple of Jupiter with the Acropolis in the background)
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(Untitled view of the Temple of Hephaestus)
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(creates panoramic view with photographs 545 and 544)
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Consists of photographs of Jerusalem, including David's gate, Interior of the Jaffa gate, Tower of David and Hippicus, and Cupola of the Ascension, as well as others.
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(creates panoramic view with photograph 843)
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Cawas functioned as consular guards.
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Consists of photographs of Damascus, including Porte de la rue Droite où de Bab-Charki, Cérémonie du départ du pélérinage pour la Mecque à Damas, Tombeau de St. Georges, and Grande mosquée et vue générale de Damas, as well as others.
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(creates panoramic view with photographs 793 and 794)
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Consists of photographs of Phoenicia and Philistia, including Beyrouth vu du collège américain, Cawas du consulat de France, The fortress of Sidon, and Ruins of Ascalon, as well as others.
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Consists of photographs of the Dead Sea and Moab, including Pool of Solomon and fortress, Abraham's oak near Hebron, Ruins of the fortress of Massada, and Tower of Jericho, as well as others.
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Includes volumes of autograph and typed text, notes, tables, photographs, and scrapbooks
Original box numbers retained (various sequences of volume numbers in boxes 15-34)
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(mostly about social conditions at the end of the Ottoman Empire)
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