By Edward William Lane
The launching of this hitherto unpublished ebook by way of the nice nineteenth-century British tourist Edward William Lane (1801-76), a reputation recognized to just about every person in the entire many fields of heart East reports, is a big publishing occasion. Lane was once the writer of a few hugely influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the fashionable Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). but certainly one of his maximum works was once by no means released: after years of work and regardless of an enthusiastic reception through the publishing company of John Murray in 1831, e-book of his first booklet, Description of Egypt, was once behind schedule and finally dropped, in general for monetary purposes. The manuscript used to be offered to the British Library by means of Lane's widow in 1891, and has in simple terms now been salvaged for book by means of Dr. Jason Thompson, approximately one hundred seventy years after its completion.
This drastically very important e-book, which takes the shape of a trip via Egypt from north to south, with descriptions of all of the historical monuments and modern lifestyles that Lane explored alongside the best way, may be of colossal curiosity to either historical and sleek historians of Egypt, and should turn into an important significant other to his Manners and Customs.
''Jason Thompson's designated and committed variation merits a lot praise.''-Astene e-newsletter, June 2002.
''Thompson, a historian at AUC, has performed sign carrier in taking a manuscript courting from 1831 and getting ready it for ebook such a lot of years later; AUC Press merits compliment for making so significant a piece on hand, and at so moderate a price.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001.
''In all, the looks of this significant paintings of scholarship at this past due date is an important boon to the research of Egypt's historical past among the pharaohs and 18280.''-Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly, June 2001.
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Those which I saw were small, and rudely cut, without paintings or any other decorations. One of the catacombs is very spacious. It is the only one that is well worthy of being examined; but I was not allowed to approach it; and had I obtained permission, I should not have been at all anxious to avail myself of it; for a battery has lately been constructed over the spot, and the Turks have converted the subterranean apartments into sinks. The principal chamber is described as being of a circular form; and the roof is excavated like the interior of a dome.
Introduction^ A zealous attachment to the study of oriental literature, and a particular desire to render myself familiar with the language of the Arabs, and with their manners and customs, induced me to visit Egypt. But these were not my only motives. I had long entertained a wish to examine the antiquities of that most interesting country: and as I felt, even before I commenced my travels, that there was a probability of my publishing the observations that I might make; I purposed to execute a series of sketches of all the most remarkable objects that I might see; well convinced that a drawing, in many cases, is worth many pages of description: and to ensure the utmost accuracy in these, I determined to make use of the Camera Lucida.
This temple was erected on the same spot where a smaller edifice, dedicated to the same deity, had been built before the foundation of Alexandria; as we are informed by Tacitus. " Strabo mentions a village, or small town, of the same name, which became included within the limits of Alexandria, and was near the docks; but this was distinct from the hill of Rhacotis. Cyrill informs us that the Serapeum was near the Necropolis; and a general remark of Macrobius, respecting temples dedicated to Serapis, shews that it must have been without the walls of the city; while Strabo describes it as being within the canal.