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B-462: Revelationes Sancte Birgitte

Third collected edition. The Revelationes of St. Bridget of Sweden are a collection of visions she had through out her childhood but grew increasingly frequent during her widowhood in 1344 when she devoted herself totally to the holy life. The Revelationes is a thirteen-volume work. St. Bridget paid avisit to Cyprus on her trip to Jerusalem as a guest of the queen of Cyprus, Elionor. (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection).
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Pathsof the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B-366: Discours du voyage

Second edition. Giraudet, a Franciscan priest from Puy, presents an itinerary of his travels. (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection).
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannouunder the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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C-103: Relationi Universali

First illustrated edition. Botero, a political theorist and one of the finest economists of the 16th century, was dispatched on a mission by the Propaganda Fide to visit Europe and report on the overall situation of each country's religion. This adventure, and the experiences obtained along the way, most likely inspired Botero to write this book. (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection).
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B-438: Orientalische Reysz

First edition. In 1579, Breuning embarked on a journey to the Holy Land. He travelled from Venice to Egypt through Constantinople and Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cyprus, and Tripoli. Breuning was in Cyprus from November 2nd to November 6th. (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection).
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B-087: Reise zum heiligen Grabe

A late unrecorded edition. Ecklin visited Cyprus from 27th January to 27th April 1553 and on his return tour from 28th September to 17th October 1553. His stay in Cyprus was unusually long compared to the customs of the period's pilgrims. His remarks regarding Cyprus are particularly significant in light of the time period he visited the island, namely during the Venetian occupation and just before the Turkish invasion (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection).
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190“Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus”(ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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PBB-0080: Travels Of Peter Teixeira From India to Italy by Land

The Travels of Peter Teixeira from India to Italy by Land describes the journey that began in Goa in February of 1604 and continued to Venice via Hurmuz-Basra over the Mediterranean Sea at the beginning of the early XVIIth century. Teixeira stopped in Basra, Najaf, Karbala, Baghdad, Ana, Aleppo, Antioch, Alexandretta, and Cyprus during his tour. (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection).
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant inthe Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B-407: Mémoires Historiques

First edition. Ferrières-Sauveboeuf made numerous journeys around the Levant, including Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Cyprus, and Syria. (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation Collection).
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B.0104: English Pilot. Part III

From one of the many editions of The English Pilot published after 1716 by William Mount and Thomas Page. The English Pilot is an atlas of sea charts. It includes informative text, 22 double-pageand folding maps and charts with informative text and several woodcut coastline profiles and vignettes throughout the narrative. Part III is often referred to as the ‘Mediterranean Pilot’. (Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection B.0104)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus”(ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B-2462: Voyageur François

Fourth edition, volume I only, published in Paris in 1772. La Porte’s text consists of travel accounts in the form of letters, although he was not a traveller, but a compiler. Volume I opens with the letter on Cyprus, pp. 11-34, dated from Nicosia, the 30th of October, 1753.
(Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection B.2462)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventingage-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B.2284: Journal ... From Bassora To Bagdad ... To Aleppo, Cyprus, Rhodes, Zante, Corfu

First edition published in Horsham in 1784. This work, attributed to Samuel Evers, has also been attributed to C. Eversfield. Evers spent about three weeks in Cyprus, mainly in Larnaca, which he described in some detail. (Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection B.2284)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B.2387: Treatise Of The Plague

First edition published in London in 1791. Patrick Russell’s Treatise contains an account of the plague in Cyprus. (Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection B.2387)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus”(ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B.2309: Voyages And Travels Of A Sea Officer

First and apparently only edition, published in Dublin in 1792. Francis Venables Vernon is not to be confused with the 17th-century traveller Francis Vernon, who was probably a family connection. In 1777 Vernon joined the British navy as a midshipman. His Voyages is mostly an account of his experiences as a naval officer aboard ship. (Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection B.2309)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B.2376: Journey Over Land To India

First edition, published in London in 1795. Campbell set out on his journey in 1781 over land through Europe and then via Venice and Alexandria to the Levant. He was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean on the coast of Madras and was captured by the soldiers of Hyder Ali. He spent two days in Cyprus. He returned to England in 1786. (Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection B.2376)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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B.2311: Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern

Volume 3 of Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien…, published in Hamburg in 1837. This volume was published some 60 years after the publication of vols 1 and 2. It has an additional title, Reisen durch Syrien und Palästina nach Cypern. The Reisebeschreibung contains the full account of Carsten Niebuhr’s six years of travel in the East and is fully illustrated. Niebuhr, the traveller-land surveyor, visited Cyprus in July of 1766 in the course of the Danish expedition to Egypt and Arabia. His visit to Cyprus is of particular significance for the plan of the ancient city of Kition (Citium). (Sylvia Ioannou Foundation Collection B.2311)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant inthe Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision ofthe Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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TP925.M37 1776: Della Robbia Sua Coltivazione E Suoi Usi

First edition. This scarce book describes the cultivation, processing, and application of madder (rubiatinctorum), an herbaceous climbing plant with little yellow flowers whose root is used medicinally and, more importantly, as the primary source of dye (usually crimson). The carefully engraved engravings depict the plant and the process of producing red dye. (CVAR collection)
This book is included in INSPIRAL portal for travel literature, developed by the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation.

The digitization is an outcome of the Excellence hubs EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 “Re-inventing age-old Travelling Paths of the Levant in the Digital Era: the example of Cyprus” (ReTraPath), hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, Margarita Ioannou under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The Project EXCELLENCE/0918/0190 is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.

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Travels Through Different Cities

The work comprises thirteen letters written, mostly to Drummond’s brother during the years 1744-1750 while traveling and later when he was resident in Cyprus and in Asia Minor on commercial business from 1754 to 1756. Drummond was British Council at Aleppo, and also formed the first Masonic lodge in Smyrna. An important work, with some errors, with plates including a fine map and views of antiquities in Cyprus. The book was digitized by courtesy of the Premier Banking, Bank of Cyprus.

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The History of the War of Cyprus

8vo First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Robert Midgley, who has signed the dedication. This is one of the few accounts in English of the War of Cyprus, that is, the Turkish conquest of Cyprus, 1570-1571. It is based on Antonio Maria Graziani’s De Bello Cyprio, first published in Rome in 1624. The book was digitized by courtesy of the Corporate Division of Bank of Cyprus.

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Cyprus in the 20th c.: State, Society and Economy

Proceedings of the Third One-Day Event organized by the Bank of Cyprus Historical Archive, in collaboration with the University of Cyprus and the European University Cyprus, at the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation on March 28, 2015 [Language: Greek].

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Christian Diversity in Late Venetian Cyprus: A Study and English Translation of Codex B-030 from the Collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation

The monograph, written in English, is the fruit of the postdoctoral programme “Aspects of multiconfessionalism and human geography in early modern Cyprus from the Venetians to the Ottomans (CyChrist)”, hosted by the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and completed by postdoctoral researcher, historian Chrysovalantis Kyriakou, under the supervision of the Cultural Foundation Director. The project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the European Structural and Investment Funds in Cyprus via the Research and Innovation Foundation.