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Revision as of 11:07, January 4, 2012
Aleppo
Editorial history
26/12/11, CSG: Created page
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See Tripoli
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Notes
Mentions of Aleppo in Wiki
Inventories
Law suits
Letters
See 13th May 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale & Mun Browne to Sir GO, Aleppo
See 10th August 1663, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, London
- "Under y:e present I sent you two Packets of lres by way of Liv:o & Marcellia, Both recommended to Consull Lannoy[[FootNote(Benjamin Lannoy, English consul at Aleppo)] at Alepo to bee Conveyed to you"
See 20th August 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale to Sir GO, Aleppo
See 14th September 1665, Letter from Whinchelsea, Pira of Constant:ple
- "I have a pticular likeing to y:t Drinke w:ch they call Tea, & therefore I must desire you to doe mee y:e ffavo:e to send mee by y:e Caravan w:ch come for Allepo such a proportion thereof as may serve for 2:psons á whole yeare"
Wills
See Mun Browne will
- Mun Browne, the son of Humfry Browne, was a merchant at Aleppo, though his will was probably written when he was in London. His brother was the SVJS subscriber Edwin Browne
See Philip Strode will
- "I Phillip Strode of London Merchant now resident in Aleppo"
See Sir Andrew Riccard will
- Sir Andrew Riccard's will includes a statement of his real and personal estate as of July 24th, 1627, including assets at Aleppo
-- "Att Alleppo in the custody of An [or Jn.] Bull/Ball my ffactor about 2600d [or less likely 26000] {OR "2 Good"][ Lyon Dollars (?)
Proved of Cloth Tyn yds - 6000/.
In 73 barrells [?] of Tynn and 200 Broad Clothes pd for and Ready to Shipp for Aleppo cost 1000 [or 2000? or 4000?]"
Suggested image sources
'Aleppo Een Vermaerde Stadt in Syrien' in Olfert Dapper, Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant...(Amsterdam, 1677)
Alexander Russell, The Natural History of Aleppo, vol. 1, 2nd edn. (London, 1794), betw. pp. 12 & 13
Map, Ralph Davis, Aleppo and Devonshire Square: English Traders in the Levant in the 18th Century (London: Routledge, 1967, p. X
Nicholas de Nicolay, The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie.
- Translated from the French by T. Washington the younger. Edited by John (i.e. Hans) Stell. London: Thomas Dawson, 1585
- "The 60 woodcuts in the present edition were copied from the Antwerp versions, possibly by a Dutchman called Charles Tressell. The monogram CT appears in at least two cuts.
- The explicit woodcut of "a Religius Turke" facing p. 102, is often found mutilated, but remains intact in this copy.
- Other woodcuts include the earliest depictions of inhabitants of Algiers, Tripoli, Turkey, Greece, Persia and Armenia. Jewish occupational costumes are represented by a physician, a Jewess and a merchant.”
- See: www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d52815/d5281539l.jpg, viewed 25/10/10
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