Yale papyrus
Letter in Arabic to a sister, concerning business, including purchase or sale of papyrus (P.CtYBR inv. 2662). From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling (1879)
This is one of the collection of painting by Edward Lear in the Yale Center for British Art. Lear, a naturalist painter, spent about a year in Darjeeling, in the Himalayas.
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Dwight Whitney on Sanskrit Cerebrals
Many students of Sanskrit have, over the years, used and occasionally disagreed with Monier-Williams' "Practical grammar of the Sanskrit language". Dwight Whitney, one of the early founders of the Yale South Asia Collection, is no exception! Looking through the older Sanskrit books in Sterling Memorial Library, you will frequently find handwritten notes that are over a hundred years old.
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Safafid-era textile fragment
Textile fragment, 17th cent., signed by Khwajah Ghiyath al-Din Ali. From the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery.
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Moving Memnon's head
"Mode in which the young Memnon's head (now in the British Museum) was removed," from Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, 1822. From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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East part of Barbary, 1716
"The east part of Barbary containing Tunis, Tripoli, Barca, Egypt, Nubia, part of Biledulgerid and Zaara or desart," in Forty-two new maps of Asia, Africa, and America ... : all engrav’d, according to the latest observations by Herman Moll, 1716. From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Abydos 1867
The temple at Abydos, Egypt, in 1867. Watercolor by Edward Lear (1812-1888). From the collections of the Yale Center for British Art.
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