MRP: Aleppo

Aleppo

Editorial history

26/12/11, CSG: Created page

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Suggested links

See Constantinople
See Galatia
See Smyrna
See Tripoli
See Tunis

See Venice

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Images

East Mediterranean detail, Carte du bassin méditerranéen, de l'Asie mineure etc., le Brun, 1714

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Town plan

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Townscape

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Image credits & copyright information

(1) Detail from 'Carte du bassin méditerranéen, de l'Asie mineure etc.' in Corneille Le Brun, Illustrations de Voyage au Levant (Paris, 1714), carte dépl. en reg. p. 1
- Book and image are out of copyright
- Sourced from Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.bnf.fr, for non-commercial use

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Mentions of Aleppo in Wiki

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Letters

See 13th May 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale & Mun Browne to Sir GO, Aleppo

See 10th August 1663, Letter from Sir George Smith to Sir GO, London
- "Under y:e present I sent you two Packets of lres by way of Liv:o & Marcellia, Both recommended to Consull Lannoy at Alepo to bee Conveyed to you"

See 20th August 1663, Letter from Gamaliel Nightingale to Sir GO, Aleppo

See 14th September 1665, Letter from Whinchelsea, Pira of Constant:ple
- "I have a pticular likeing to y:t Drinke w:ch they call Tea, & therefore I must desire you to doe mee y:e ffavo:e to send mee by y:e Caravan w:ch come for Allepo such a proportion thereof as may serve for 2:psons á whole yeare"

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Wills

See Mun Browne will

- Mun Browne, the son of Humfry Browne, was a merchant at Aleppo, though his will was probably written when he was in London. His brother was the SVJS subscriber Edwin Browne

See Philip Strode will

- "I Phillip Strode of London Merchant now resident in Aleppo"

See Sir Andrew Riccard will

- Sir Andrew Riccard's will includes a statement of his real and personal estate as of July 24th, 1627, including assets at Aleppo

-- "Att Alleppo in the custody of An [or Jn.] Bull/Ball my ffactor about 2600d [or less likely 26000] [OR "2 Good"][ Lyon Dollars (?)
Proved of Cloth Tyn yds - 6000/.
In 73 barrells [?] of Tynn and 200 Broad Clothes pd for and Ready to Shipp for Aleppo cost 1000 [or 2000? or 4000?]"

See Walter Bludworth will

- " I Walter Bludworth Merchant in Aleppo and now by Gods blessing intend for Jerusalem the One and Twenty day of Ffebruary in the year of the Lord 1674/5 I doe make and ordeine this my Will and Testament"

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Suggested image sources

Dapper, Olfert, 'Aleppo Een Vermaerde Stadt in Syrien' in Olfert Dapper, Naukeurige beschryving van gantsch Syrie, en Palestyn of Heilige Lant...(Amsterdam, 1677)
- "fine views of Damascus, Tripoli, Aleppo, Jaffa, Rama, the Temple of Solomon, and a birds-eye view of Jerusalem"

Davis, Ralph , Map, Aleppo and Devonshire Square: English Traders in the Levant in the 18th Century (London, 1967), p. ?

de Nicolay, Nicholas, The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie
- Translated from the French by T. Washington the younger. Edited by John (i.e. Hans) Stell. London: Thomas Dawson, 1585
- "The 60 woodcuts in the present edition were copied from the Antwerp versions, possibly by a Dutchman called Charles Tressell. The monogram CT appears in at least two cuts.
- The explicit woodcut of "a Religius Turke" facing p. 102, is often found mutilated, but remains intact in this copy.
- Other woodcuts include the earliest depictions of inhabitants of Algiers, Tripoli, Turkey, Greece, Persia and Armenia. Jewish occupational costumes are represented by a physician, a Jewess and a merchant."

Russell, Alexander, The Natural History of Aleppo, vol. 1, 2nd edn. (London, 1794), betw. pp. 12 & 13

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Suggested primary sources

Van der Aa, Pieter, L. Rouwolfs Land-Reyse, gedaan van Aleppo, door Babylonien, Syrien en Palestina (?Leiden, 1707)

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Suggested secondary sources

Lincolnshire Archives

John Nelthorpe, the cousin of Francis Nelthorpe, a correspondent of Sir George Oxenden, and the nephew of Sir John Nelthorpe, bart., another correspondent of Sir George Oxenden

LINCOLNSHIRE ARCHIVES: NELTHORPE: Nelthorpe [NEL I - NEL V] : Copy of a will. NEL IV/21/3 12th February, 1693

- Contents: Testator: John Nelthorpe, merchant of Aleppo.
- Beneficiaries: His father Sir Goddard £40 for a ring and mourning.
Mother, Lady Dorothy, £40 for a ring and mourning. Henry Nelthorpe, his eldest brother - £40 for a ring and mourning.

Revd. Mr. William Hallifax, minister at Aleppo 50 Lyon dollars. William Harvey, a friend - a ring of 20 shillings. Dr. John Pickerne, 50 Lyon dollars. Signor J. G. Transfeldt, 100 Lyon dollars. Monsieur Bigand, a ring. Abdallor, his warehousekeeper 50 dollars. To his boy Michael, 50 dollars. To the Poor - 50 dollars. Mr. Alexander Akehurst, to be assignee and to take books papers and all else and send them to his brothers Edward and Richard Nelthorpe, his executors. Edward Nelthorpe his brother - 2/3 of his estate. Richard Nelthorpe his brother - the other third. Alex. Akehurst - horses, furniture, books, arms, wearing apparel and half the furniture of chambers and country house. George Juxon his partner - his share of partnership and the other half of his furniture of chambers and country house. Mr. Hallifax to manage affairs over the will in Aleppo and the Bishop of London in England. Will dated Probate, 1697.