Primary Sources and Archival Collections.

Egypt

The Amarna letters.  Edited and translated by William L. Moran.  
Baltimore  :  Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992.  
PJ3886.E5 M67 1992 (Theology Research)

Didymus, the Blind  / La propriété foncière privée dans l'Égypte de Vespasien et sa technique agricole d'après P. Lond. 131 recto.   Edited by Anna Swiderek. Wroclaw : Zaklad narodowy im. Ossolinskich, Wydawn. Polskiej Akademii Nauk. 1960.   DT93.A2 D53 1960 (Stone Stacks)

Ibn Iyas / An account of the Ottoman conquest of Egypt in the year A.H. 922 (A.D. 1516) translated from the third volume of the Arabic chronicle of Muhammed ibn Ahmed ibn Iy¯as, an eyewitness of the scenes he describes, by Lieut.-Colonel W.H. Salmon .   London :  The Royal Asiatic Society, 1921.  
DT96 .F21 

Kléber et Menou en Egypte depuis le départ de Bonaparte (août 1799-septembre 1801). Edited by Fran ç ois Rousseau.   Paris :  A. Picard et fils, 1900.  
DC225 F00 

Records of the past: being English translations of the ancient monuments of Egypt and western Asia .   New series.   Edited by A. H. Sayce.   London  :  S. Bagster and sons, ltd., 1889-93.  
D52 E88 

Le règne de Monhamed Aly d'après les archives russes en Égypte. Edited by René Cattaui.   Caire :  Impr. de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, pour la Société royale de géographie d'Égypte, 1931-36.  
DT104 F311  (v. 1-3)

Stern, S.M. /  F¯atimid decrees; original documents from the F¯atimid chancery .   London : Faber and Faber, 1964.  
DT95.5 F64 



Eritrea

 Ethiopia and Eritrea : a documentary study .   Compiled by Habtu Ghebre-Ab.   Trenton :  Red Sea Press, 1993.  
DT394 .E84 1993

Martini, Ferdinando / Nell' Affrica italiana; impressioni e ricordi.   Milano :  Fratelli Treves, 1895.  
DT393 .E95 

Schoenfeld, Emil Christian Dagobert /  Erythräa und der ägyptische Sudân.  
Berlin :  Reimer, 1904.
DT 393 .F04 



Ethiopia

Acta Æthiopica.   Edited by Sven Rubenson.   Evanston :  Northwestern University Press, 1987.  
DT386 .A23 1987

 Baker, Samuel White, Sir  /  Exploration of the Nile tributaries of Abyssinia. The sources, supply, and overflow of the Nile; the country, people, customs, etc.  
Hartford :  O.D. Case, 1868.  
DT117 E68  

The Bandlet of Righteousness, an Ethiopian book of the dead; the Ethiopic Text in facsimile.  London : Luzac, 1929.
PJ 9098 L4  (Theo Research)

Bruce, James / Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.  Edinburgh :  J. Ruthven, 1790.  
DT377 .D90  (v. 1-5)

A Chronicle of Emperor Yohannes IV: (1872-89).   Edited by Bairu Tafla.  
Wiesbaden :  Steiner, 1977.  
DT386.7 .C48 

De Cosson, Emilius Albert /  The Cradle of the Blue Nile: a visit to the court of King John of Ethiopia.   London :  J. Murray, 1877.  
DT377 E77 

Documents on Ethiopian politics.  Edited by Borg Steffanson.  
Salisbury, N.C.  :  Documentary Publications, 1976.  
DT382.3 .S7M

Duchesne-Fournet, Jean, 1875-1904 / Mission en Ethiopie (1901-1903). 2 volumes and atlas.
DT 378 F08  (v. 1-2)

Gobat, Samuel / Journal of three years' residence in Abyssinia.   Translated from the French by Sereno D. Clark.   New York :  M.W. Dodd, 1850.  
DT377 E50 

Guerra d'Africa : documenti sulla battaglia di Adua : sulla operazione per la liberazione di Cassala.   Roma :  Enrico Voghera, 1896.  
DT387.3 .G82M 

Hammerschmidt, Ernst / Illuminierte athiopische Handschriften.
Wiesbaden, F. Steiner, 1968.
Z 6605 O7 F61 no. 15

Hoskins, G.A.  / Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe.   London :  Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1835.  
DT123 .E35 

Hozier, Henry Montague, Sir /  The British expedition to Abyssinia
London : Macmillan, 1869.  
DT386.3 E691 

Internal rivalries and foreign threats 1869-1879.   Edited by Sven Rubenson.   Addis Ababa : Addis Ababa University Press, 2000.  
DT386 .I58 2000 

 McCann, James  / Orality, State Literacy, and Political Cuture in Ethiopia: Translating the Ras Kassa Registers.   Boston :  African Studies Center, Boston University, 1991. DT 1 D57 no. 10

Portal, Gerald Herbert, Sir / An account of the English mission to King Johannis of Abyssinia in 1887.  
Winchester :  Warren & Son, 1888.  
DT386.7 .E88

Wylde, Augustus Blandy / '83 to '87 in the Soudan, with an account of Sir William Hewett's mission to King John of Abyssinia.  London :  Remington & co., 1888.   DT108.3 E88  (v. 1-2)

 

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