Subject
BR Christianity | BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc | DS Asia
Type
kitap
Language
Persian
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Library
University of Birmingham Institutional Research Archive
Record ID
99
Library Location
Library Services, Special Collections, ITSEE
Date
04 Jul 2009 23:09
Notes
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Sample Text
Persian text of a treatise on Sufi Islamic Spirituality (apparently), copied by a named Ottoman scribe. Gilded frontispiece and borders.This manuscript is contained within the The Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts, held at the Department of Special Collections, University of Birmingham. This collection was founded in Birmingham between 1925 and 1929 by Edward Cadbury, the Chairman of Council of Woodbrooke College and a founding member of the Selly Oak Colleges, who sponsored and financed the Collection, and housed it in the Selly Oak Colleges Library. He named the Collection after its collector, Alphonse Mingana. The Arabic manuscripts are the third largest collection in the UK. The content is mostly religious, mainly Islamic and early Near Eastern Christian.
Destekleyenler
University of Birmingham, JISC
Kimlik Kodu
99
Kaynak
Virtual Manuscript Room