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Arabic Manuscripts in the OLRC, Birmingham

 

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Guide
Catalogue on 17 microfiches, and printed catalogue in 4 volumes.

Content note
Organized into the following series: The Syriac Collection; The Arabic Collection, with subseries as follows: Christian Arabic; Islamic Arabic.

Language note
Texts in Arabic and Syriac.

Biographical note
By the time of his death, Mingana had published two volumes cataloguing the Syriac and Christian Arabic manuscripts and a third, covering additional manuscripts of the same origin, was in press. The work was completed by Prof. A.F.L. Beeston, Prof. J.S. Trimingham, and Dr. D. Hopwood.

Provenance
The collection is now in the Orchard Learning Resource Centre in Birmingham.