Descriptive Catalogues of Historical Earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East; Revisited - Historical Seismology: Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes - page 25

The following descriptive earthquake catalogues are published, readily available
and some of them are widely used.
Manetti 's work is the earliest-known compendium of earthquakes and contains
an annotated list of earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean and elsewhere up
to 1456. Manetti does not always cite his sources and quite often the year of an
earthquake is recorded only by reference to other events (Manetti ca. 1457).
Al-Suyuti 's earthquake catalogue was compiled in the early part of the 16th
century and extended by his continuators to the year 1588. It is a reliable source
of information for the Muslim world, covering the region from Morocco to Tran-
soxiana (Sa'adani ed. 1971).
Bonito 's large world earthquake catalogue is an invaluable compendium of infor-
mation about earthquakes that ends with 1690. Its 822 pages contain a wealth of
information culled from a variety of sources, which Bonito quotes and occasion-
ally annotates. His work provides an excellent starting point for the identification
of earthquakes in Europe and in the New World (Bonito 1691).

Coronelli 's work, although prepared as a global catalogue of earthquakes up
to 1693, it deals mainly with events in the central and eastern Mediterranean.
Annotations are kept very brief, making no reference to sources of informa-
tion and occasionally neglecting to give the full date of an event (Coronelli
1686-1693).
An anonymous compilation of earthquakes throughout the world was published
in a series of issues of the Dresdnische Gelehrte Anzeigen in 1756, and is a
useful source of information for earthquakes worldwide during the 16th and 17th
centuries up to 1691 (Dresdnische Gelehrte Anzeigen 1756).
Hoff 's general catalogue of earthquakes is a valuable work, covering events
worldwide for the period up to the end of the 17th century. It is an accurate
and methodical study, drawing on a variety of published sources, which are cited
(Hoff 1840-41).
The compilation of Seyfart 's work on earthquakes was prompted, like many
similar works of the mid-18th century, by the large Lisbon earthquake of 1755. It
contains interesting entries, mostly extracted from published material in Europe,
such as flysheets and newsletters, as well as from the European press (Seyfart
1756).
Montbeillard 's long chronological list is an annotated collection of information
about earthquakes up to 1760. The author does not cite his sources but they seem
to include, among others, earlier catalogues and information from the European
press (Gueneau de Montbeillard 1761).

Hoff compiled twelve annual earthquake catalogues for the years 1821-32. He
extracted much of the information from press reports, travel diaries and from
correspondence. His work is of interest for areas outside Europe (Hoff 1826-35,
1840-41).
Mallet 's catalogue occupies nearly 600 pages and contains almost 7,000 events
worldwide. Although based on several earlier catalogues, and especially on those
of Hoff and Perrey, his catalogue for the period after the 17th century contains
a considerable amount of information from relatively early press reports, some