Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873

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From the description of Autograph letter signed : [London], to Lady Rawlinson, [no year] Jun. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584733

Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church College, Oxford, Robert Curzon traveled widely in Egypt and Palestine in search of manuscripts during 1834 and visited Mount Athos in 1837. He was later attache ́at the British Embassy in Constantinople. His Visits to the monasteries of the Levant appeared in 1849. Curzon was also a student of the history of handwriting. He enjoyed the friendship of the book and manuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillipps and access to Phillipps' ever-growing library of manuscripts at his Middle Hill estate in Worcestershire. This collection included many Middle Eastern manuscripts.

From the description of Libraries of the Levant : notes of some of the original libraries in the Levant where manuscripts still exist ... [manuscript], 1837. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145382410

Epithet: traveller and collector of manuscripts

Title: 14th Baron Zouche of Harringworth

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000429.0x000063
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referencedIn Houghton Library printed book provenance file, R-Z and unidentified Houghton Library
referencedIn Vol. LXIV (ff. 434). Apr -Dec. 1867.General Hon Charles Grey, private Secretary to Prince Albert and to Queen Victoria: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1864-1869.London, England: Correspondence rel. to erection of the Albert Memorial: 1866-1869... British Library
creatorOf The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, 1355-1356 British Library
referencedIn PARHAM MS. LXXXVIII. " THE CONVERSATION between God and Moses on Mount Sinai " : an apocryphal work translated from an Arabic MS. (now Brit. Mus. Or. MS. 8734) by Rev. William Cureton, with preface by R. Curzon, corrections and an addition to which (..., 1837 British Library
referencedIn SIMONIDES PAPERS. Vol I (ff. 388). (1) Letters from Simonides to John Eliot Hodgkin; 30 Dec. 1860-31 Mar. 1865, n.d. Greek. ff. 1-116. (2) Correspondence of John Eliot Hodgkin relating to Simonides; 5 Sept. 1861-Apr. 1868, 1907. A few related letter..., 1860-1907 British Library
referencedIn Vol. X. (ff. 565). July, 1838-1839. The latter part of Vol. X. contains monumental and other inscriptions by Dr. Butler (f. 438), notes relating to the genealogy of the Butler family (f. 480), and poetical pieces (f. 495).includes:f. 6 Reverend John ..., 1838-1839 British Library
creatorOf Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873. Manuscript dialogue between Robert Curzon and the Earl of Arundel (later Duke of Norfolk) : [Arundel and Parham, 1847]. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn PARHAM MS. LVI. PRAYERS, etc., verse and prose, in Flemish and Latin ; and a life of St. Christina in Flemish verse. For previous descriptions see R. Priebsch, Deutsche Handschriften in England, ii, p. 309, and Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche Taal-en ... British Library
creatorOf PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS. These eighty-nine MSS., 39583-39671, were bequeathed, with Oriental MSS. 8729-8855, by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917), having been part of the collection formed at Parham, co. Sussex, by the Hon. Robert Curzon, afterwards..., 0800-1899 British Library
referencedIn Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974. Robert Curzon : Cambridge, England : typescript of lecture unsigned, 1968. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Travel Journals of Robert Curzon. Three journals of Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche of Harringworth (b. 1810, d. 1873); 1833-1834. Curzon, a bibliophile, twice travelled through Europe, to Egypt and the Levant collecting books and manuscripts. Th..., 1833-1834 British Library
referencedIn Vol. XII. (ff. 326). 1863-1870.includes:ff. 1, 3 Thomas Wright, FSA: Letters to Sir F. Madden: 1836-1863.ff. 4, 5, 154 John Eliot Hodgkin: Correspondence with sir F. Madden: 1863-1865.f. 6 John Kenrick, FSA: Letters to Sir F. Madden: 1862, 186..., 1863-1870 British Library
creatorOf ROBERT CURZON, 14TH BARON ZOUCHE: Catalogue of Materials for Writing; 1849. Printed with MS. additions. Bequeathed with the Parham Manuscripts (see the descriptions of Add. 39583-39671 in the Catalogue of Additions 1916-1920, pp. 54-55). Incorporated..., 1849 British Library
creatorOf Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873. Libraries of the Levant : notes of some of the original libraries in the Levant where manuscripts still exist ... [manuscript], 1837. Grolier Club
creatorOf Mount Sinai; Feb. – March 1834.Sinai, Mount; Monastery of St Katherine: Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche: Journal describing Curzon's visit to Monastery of St Katherine: 1834. British Library
referencedIn PARHAM MS. LXXXII. " FABLES du Labirinte de Versailles " : a frontispiece, 38 pictures, and a tail-piece, each cut out from a single sheet of white paper and laid down on a black background, illustrating 38 out of the 39 Fables of Æsop represented on... British Library
referencedIn PARHAM MS. LXXXVII. " THE LAY Of the Purple Falcon," a metrical romance [by Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, and Robert Curzon , see Dict. Nat. Biogr. xiii, pp. 354-5, and preface to printed edition]. Written in a scrivener's hand on vellum, and i... British Library
referencedIn PANIZZI PAPERS. Letters, collected as autographs, mostly addressed to Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Principal Librarian of the British Museum; 1828-1878, n.d. English, French and Italian. Other general correspondence of Panizzi is Add. MSS. 36714-3672..., 1828-1878 British Library
referencedIn Vol. CXVI (ff. 160). June-Sept. 1890.includes:ff. 1, 15, 19, 66, 72, 74, 83, 87 John Temple Leader: Letters to Sir A. H. Lavard: 1890-1893. f. 3 Edward Ledwich Mitford, of the Ceylon Civil Service: Letters to Sir A. H. Layard: 1841-1892. f. 5 Haro... British Library
creatorOf Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873. Autograph letter : Hagley, Rugeley, Haffordshire, to Cureton, 1845 Jan. 1. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873. Autograph letter signed : [London], to Lady Rawlinson, [no year] Jun. 26. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf SUPPLEMENTARY LAYARD PAPERS Vol. II (ff. 174). , 1833-1896 British Library
creatorOf Curzon, Robert, 1810-1873. Drawings, 1828-1863. Houghton Library
creatorOf MCCRIMMON COLLECTION. Vol. VIII (ff. 128). Letters to Sir Antonio Panizzi; 1838-1873, n.d. English, French, German and Italian. Includes one photograph. Arranged in alphabetical order, with a list of most of the items made by Mrs. McCrimmon attached...., 1838-1873 British Library
referencedIn John Edward Gray papers, 1783-1884, 1783-1884 American Philosophical Society
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associatedWith Blunt, Anne, Lady, 1837-1917. person
associatedWith Cureton, person
associatedWith Gray, John Edward person
associatedWith Horblit, Harrison D., person
associatedWith Horblit, Jean Mermin, person
associatedWith Houghton Library. person
associatedWith Munby, A. N. L. (Alan Noel Latimer), 1913-1974, person
associatedWith Myers, Winifred A., person
associatedWith Norfolk, Henry Granville Fitzalan Howard, 1815-1860. person
associatedWith Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, person
associatedWith Rawlinson, Louisa Caroline Harcourt (Seymour), Lady, d. 1889, person
associatedWith Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915- person
associatedWith Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888 person
associatedWith Somers, John Somers Cocks, Earl, 1760-1841. person
associatedWith Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 person
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Death 1873-08-02

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