Details

Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Greek—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Revolutions—Greece—Crete—History—19th century [Browse]
• Crete (Greece)—History—Insurrection, 1866-1868—Sources [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Diaries [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• diaries [Browse]

Summary note

Journal kept by Emmanouēl G. Psaroudakēs during the Great Cretan Revolution (1866-1899), a three year uprising in Crete against Ottoman Rule. Title at the beginning of the text; signed at the end of the preface: "egraphon en Vraila tēs Rōmanias / tē 19 Iouniou 1874 / emm. G. psaroudakēs." Colophon on p. 737 states: "egraphon en Vraila tēs Dakias / kata to 1875 M.Ch. etos / emmanouēl G. psaroudakēs Krēs."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Physical description: 23-27 lines per page, 8vo; written in Greek script in black ink. Autograph corrections throughout the text; mechanical pagination.

Binding note

Bound in contemporary brown leather on hard boards; sewn on five raised bands.

Source acquisition

Purchase: Acquired with mathing funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. AM 2014-17.

Other title(s)

Apomnēmoneumata peri tēs teleutaias atychous epanastaseōs tēs Krētēs, 1866-1869.

OCLC

859601010

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