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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
Western Medieval Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MS
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 275 mediaeval manuscript books and c. 45 fragments which have been donated to, and purchased by the University in the course of its history. These are all books and fragments written by hand, from the early 11th to the 16th centuries. Many are finely illuminated and decorated. The collection is mainly composed of bibles and liturgical texts, books of hours, treatises of theology and philosophy, legal and medical works, examples of pre-Reformation Scottish music,...
Dates:
early 11th-16th centuries
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- Baillie, John B, fl 1876 (donor of the Oriental Manuscripts Collection) 1
- Baillie, John, of Leys, 1772-1833 (Member of Parliament and director of the East India Company) 1
- University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) 1
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