Rev Joseph Dacre Carlyle

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(4 June 1758 – 12 April 1804) was an

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orientalist. He gained church preferment and travelled widely.

Life

Joseph Dacre Carlyle was born in

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, where his father George Carlyle served as a physician. He was educated at

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, then

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School, before being accepted by

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. He moved shortly to

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. He proceeded B.A. in 1779, and was elected a fellow of Queens', took his M.A, degree in 1783, and B.D. in 1793. During his residence at Cambridge he studied with David Zamio (Europeanised name) from

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. He was appointed

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when William Craven resigned in 1796. Meanwhile he had obtained some church preferment at Carlisle, becoming chancellor of the diocese in 1793. In 1792 he published ''Rerum Ægyptiacarum Annales'', translated from the Arabic of

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, and in 1796 ''Specimens of Arabian Poetry'', translations with some details of the authors selected. In 1799, Carlyle was appointed chaplain to

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's mission to Constantinople, with the special scholarly duties of learned referee. He made a tour through Asia Minor, Palestine, Greece, and Italy, collecting Greek and Syriac manuscripts for a proposed new version of the

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. Returning to England in September 1801, Carlyle was presented the living of

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. His health was poor, and he died after an illness on 13 April 1804.

Works

Carlyle's ''Poems suggested chiefly by Scenes in Asia Minor, Syria and Greece'', together with some translations from the Arabic, were published after his death, 1805, with extracts from his journal and a preface after them. Meanwhile he had almost completed an account of his tour through the Troad, which was never published. His Arabic Bible, revised from Walton's text, was issued at Newcastle, edited by Henry Ford, professor of Arabic at Oxford, in 1811.

Some manuscripts from Carlyle's collection

Minuscule 470 Minuscule 470 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 136 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Scrivener labelled it number 509. I ...

Minuscule 471 Minuscule 471 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 136 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on a parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century. Scrivener labelled it by number 5 ...

Minuscule 472 Minuscule 472 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α 1386 (in the Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, written on parchment. Using the study of comparativ ...

Minuscule 473 Minuscule 473 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), α1390 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, made from parchment. Using the study of comparat ...

Minuscule 474 Minuscule 474 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 137 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Scrivener labeled it by number 513. ...

Minuscule 475 Minuscule 475 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 138 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 11th century. Scrivener labelled it number 515. I ...

Minuscule 488 Minuscule 488 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 4006 (in the Soden numbering), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on paper. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. Scrivener labeled it by number 514. G ...

Lectionary 232 Lectionary 232, designated by siglum ℓ ''232'' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) is a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 14th century. Scrivener labelled it by 226evl. Some leaves ...

References

;Attribution * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlyle, Joseph Dacre People from Carlisle, Cumbria English orientalists English Arabists People educated at Carlisle Grammar School Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge 1758 births 1804 deaths Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge English male non-fiction writers Sir Thomas Adams's Professors of Arabic