Books moved to Egypt
Traveling Through Sinai: From the Fourth to the Twenty-First Century (2009)
Deborah Manley, Sahar Abdel-Hakim
https://books.google.com/books?id=4h01YaOex1oC&pg=PA179
The Library, 1820
Sir Frederick Henniker
The library does not contain many books of value;
all that were worth moving have been lately carried to Egypt; there still remain many scrolls of parchment, on which are written prayers in Greek and Syriac, and also some damaged Aldine editions; -
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Example of Gone-Manuscripts, although this is Crete
Although Coxe was greeted everywhere by tales like the one that had greeted him on the island of Crete, “that there had been but a few years back a fine and very old manuscript, as the monks described it, of the New Testament, but it had been surreptitiously taken from them by a traveller from Corfu in search of antiquities”,18 there was good reason for the collecting done by Curzon and his fellow bibliophiles.
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Report to Her Majesty's Government, p.20.
