Africa and Europe
Featuring books from the collections which could be traced to Africa and Europe
Egypt
[al-Qur'ān al-Karīm] = [Koran in Arabic]
[Cairo: sn 1914?]
Provenance
Inscribed: To Sir Samuel Way Adelaide. With kind regards from J.H. Sexton. Copy of the Koran purchased in Egypt, signed and dated Apr. 20 1914
Bookplate: Sir Samuel Way
Rev. J.H. Sexton was Secretary of the SA Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He travelled on an extended tour of Egypt and the Holy Land in 1914
Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa
Deed of freedom of Tsame [or Tsami], 9 w. a fem. Mugika(?) no. 189 Mombasa register...dated at Mombasa, the 6 of May, 1885
Provenance
Translation of Arabic text: "She was a slave and now has become free and is under obligation to no one." This document has the stamped seal of the British Vice Consulate, Zanzibar and is signed C.S. Smith. H. M.'s Agent & Consul General has been changed to H. M.'s Vice Consul
Genève, Switzerland
Camille Mauclair
Servitude et grandeur litteraires: souvenirs d'arts et de lettres de 1890 a 1900.--Le symbolisme; les theatres d'avant-garde; peintres, musiciens.--L'anarchisme et le Dreyfusisme.--L'arrivisme, etc
Paris: Ollendorff, [1922?]
Provenance
Has a library book jacket and stamps from Librarie Circulante Richard. 80, rue du Rhone, 80 Genève
Säftaholms slot, Vingåker, Sweden
Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. Année M.DCCXI. : Avec les memoires de mathematique & de physique, pour le même Année. Tirez des registres de cette Academie
Amsterdam: chez Pierre de Coup, 1715
Provenance
Contains bookplate: Säfstaholms Bibliothek. Initials GTB [=Gustaf Trolle-Bonde (1773-1855)] at head of bookplate
Gustaf Trolle-Bonde (1773-1855) "the Blind Excellency" was a patron of the arts and collector of books and paintings. He inherited Säfstaholms in 1797 and rebuilt and redesigned large parts of the estate to house his growing art collection and library. The library was sold in 1920. The estate is now an art museum showcasing Swedish artists from the early 20th century [Information from the Provenance Online Project, Pennsylvania University]
Weingarten, Germany
Oribasius
Synopseos ad Eustathium filium libri novem quibus tota medicina in compredium redacta continetur / Ioanne Baptista Rasario novariensi medico interprete
Venetiis: Apvd P. Manvtivm, 1554
Provenance
Inscribed: 'Monastery Weingarten 1659 [Now Weingarten Abbey in Weingarten near Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg (Germany)]
Contains library stamp from Königliche Handbibliothek.
Weingarten Abbey was founded in 1056 by Welf I, Duke of Bavaria. The monks there worked at manuscript illumination. Their most famous work is the Berthold Sacramentary of 1217, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. It was considered one of the richest monasteries in southern Germany
From 1715, the Romanesque abbey church, was largely demolished, and replaced by a large and richly decorated Baroque church. In 1803, during the German Mediatisation, the abbey was dissolved, and then re-founded and resettled in 1922
Königliche Handbibliothek [the "Royal Hand Library"] was built on a donation of books provided by King Wilhelm I from his private collection. This library is now considered the jewel of Wilhelmsstift Seminar Library in Tübingen, Germany
Neumarkt, Dresden, Germany
Les Murray; übersetzung aus dem Englischen von Margitt Lehbert, kaltnadelradierungen von Susanne Theumer
Verschollen: ausgewählte Gedichte
[Neumarkt]: Verlag Thomas Reche, [2008]
Provenance
Inscribed: For John from Thomas looking forward to our new book. Neumarkt, 18.iv.11
[Also] signed by Les Murray and Susanne Theumer
