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Oriental Manuscripts Collection
Fonds
Identifier: Or Ms
Scope and Contents
The collection of over 700 oriental manuscripts includes some of the greatest treasures of Edinburgh University Library. The manuscripts are mainly Islamic, written in Arabic or Persian, but there are also Jewish Torah scrolls, Buddhist texts on palm leaves and Hindu manuscripts.The Al-Bîrûnî, Rashid al-Din and Mahabharata manuscripts are the best-known items (Or Ms 161, Or Ms 20, Or Ms 510). Other treasures include a beautiful Koran (Or Ms 148) which belonged to Tipu-Sahib, Sultan of...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries
Papers of Professor Robert Bertram Serjeant
Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1062
Scope and Contents
The collection is composed of 11 unsorted boxes of papers which contain research notes (linguistics, ethonology and anthropology in South Arabia), bibliography notes, newspapers related to events in South Arabia, photocopies of Arabic manuscripts, typed notes on the political and military situation in Yemen during the 1960s (North Yemen Civil War).
Papers relating to academic research, containing Serjeant’s own...
Dates:
1940-1980
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- Arabic language 1
- Arabic literature | 1
- India 1
- Islam 1
- Linguistics 1
- Manuscripts, Persian 1
- Middle East 1
- Palm-leaf manuscripts 1
- Qur'an 1
- Sacred works 1
- Yemen (Arab Republic) History 1962-1970 1
- Yemen (Arab Republic)--History--Revolution, 1962. 1
- Yemen | Description and travel | | | 1 ∧ less
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- Arabic 1
- English 1
- French 1
- German 1
- Names
- Baillie, John B, fl 1876 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 1
- Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Professor of Arabic and Persian, Fort William College) 1
- Serjeant, Marion, d 2013 (Edinburgh-based doctor, wife of Robert Serjeant) 1
- Serjeant, Robert Bertram, 1915-1993 (Professor of Arabic, Cambridge) 1
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