GB 1500 Bent - Bent Diaries

25 notebooks

GB 1500 Bent 1883-1898 Collection (Fonds) 25 notebooks Bent , James Theodore , 1852-1897 , traveller and archaeologist
Bent , Mabel Virginia Anna , d 1929 , traveller and writer
James Theodore Bent; born Baildon, Yorkshire, 1852; educated at Malvern Wells, Repton School and Wadham College Oxford (BA 1875); married 1877 Mabel Virginia Anna, daughter of Robert Hall-Dare. Between 1877 and 1897 the Bents travelled extensively in Greece, Italy, Turkey, Russia, India the Persian Gulf, Central Africa, Abyssinia and the Arabian peninsula. Bent died in London in 1897, from pneumonia following on malarial fever, which developed after his return from Aden.
Publications: Theodore Bent:The Life of Garibaldi, 1881; The Cyclades, or Life amomg the Insular Greeks, 1885; The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland, 1892; The Sacred City of the Ethiopians, 1893; articles in the Archaeological Journal, the Journal of Hellenic Studies, the Journal of the Anthropological Institute. Mabel Bent: Southern Arabia, 1900 (contains extensive material from Theodore Bent's journals).

Presented to the Library of the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies, exact date unknown [probably in the 1920s].

Diaries and notebooks of James Theodore and Mabel Virginia Anna Bent, 1883-1898, comprising:
Mabel Bent's diaries of visits to the Greek Islands, 1883-1884; Greece and Egypt, 1885; Constantinople [Istanbul] and the Greek Islands, 1886; Greece, 1887; Turkey and Russia, 1888; India and Persia [Iran], 1889 (3 volumes); Cilicia, Turkey, 1890; Central Africa (Mashonaland), 1891 (2 volumes); Hadramout, 1893-1895 (3 volumes); Suez, Kourbat and Athens, 1895-1896; Socotra, Yemen, 1896-1897; Greece and Egypt, 1898;
Theodore Bent's diary of visits to Hadramout, Yemen, 1893-94; Muscat, Dec 1894; Socotra, Yemen, Dec 1896-Mar 1897; notebook, containing Greek inscriptions, 1888; notebook on language in Socotra [1896-1897].

Chronological

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A copying service is available, at the discretion of the Librarian, and subject to the condition of the originals.
English

List, copy deposited in the National Register of Archives (NRA 35451)

Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Apr 2002 Adan Aden Protectorate African cultures African history Ancient civilizations Ancient history Ancient religions Ancient scripts Antiquities Antiquity Arab culture Arabic Arts Athens Bent , James Theodore , 1852-1897 , traveller and archaeologist Bent , Mabel Virginia Anna , d 1929 , traveller and writer Central Africa Cilicia Diaries Documents Eastern Europe Egypt Egyptology Epigraphy Europe European cultures European history Greece Greek (classical) Greek history Gulf States Hadramout Historical methods Historical periods History India Indo-european languages Information sources Ionian Islands Islamic culture Istanbul Literary forms and genres Literature Marmara Mashonaland Middle East Muscat National cultures National history Nonfiction North Africa Oman Primary documents Prose Religions Roman history Russia Semitic languages Socotra South Asia Southern Africa South Yemen Suez Turkey Urban Western Europe Works of art Writing systems Yemen Zimbabwe Crimea Movable cultural property Cultural property Cultural heritage

Presented to the Library of the Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies, exact date unknown [probably in the 1920s].

Diaries and notebooks of James Theodore and Mabel Virginia Anna Bent, 1883-1898, comprising:
Mabel Bent's diaries of visits to the Greek Islands, 1883-1884; Greece and Egypt, 1885; Constantinople [Istanbul] and the Greek Islands, 1886; Greece, 1887; Turkey and Russia, 1888; India and Persia [Iran], 1889 (3 volumes); Cilicia, Turkey, 1890; Central Africa (Mashonaland), 1891 (2 volumes); Hadramout, 1893-1895 (3 volumes); Suez, Kourbat and Athens, 1895-1896; Socotra, Yemen, 1896-1897; Greece and Egypt, 1898;
Theodore Bent's diary of visits to Hadramout, Yemen, 1893-94; Muscat, Dec 1894; Socotra, Yemen, Dec 1896-Mar 1897; notebook, containing Greek inscriptions, 1888; notebook on language in Socotra [1896-1897].

Chronological

By appointment only. Researchers wishing to consult the collection or seeking further information should first contact the Librarian.

A copying service is available, at the discretion of the Librarian, and subject to the condition of the originals.

• English

• Latin

English

List, copy deposited in the National Register of Archives (NRA 35451)

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English