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1. EAP993/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP993/1
Title:
El Bessi Family Manuscript Collection
Scope & Content:
171 volumes with binding covers; 18 additional fragments without binding covers; 216 family documents grouped into three batches by category. The majority of the manuscripts date to the late-17th-to-late-19th centuries, during the period the mosque's operation. Several manuscripts are copied on...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish
Date Range:
1308-1944
Extent:
90957 TIFF images

2. EAP993/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP993/1/2
Title:
El Bessi Family Manuscript Collection: Additional Documents
Scope & Content:
[Documents and unbound/unnumbered manuscripts without original inventory numbers] This series contains the following 16 files: EAP993/1/2/1: Wafāyāt documents [1198; 964; 1181] EAP993/1/2/2: [miscellaneous family documents] EAP993/1/2/3: [Documents relating to purchases for the El Basi Mosque] ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1513-1914
Extent:
2387 TIFF images

3. EAP993/1/2/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP993/1/2/3
Title:
[الشراءات]
Scope & Content:
Unbound collection of documents with no cover; black ink without rubrics; European watermarked paper: Letters "C" and "R" countermark (f.153); [Part of an unidentified animal?] watermark (f.160). 74 folios of varying dimensions Original location reference: 2_003. Author: Multiple. Scribe: Mu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1513?-1914?
Extent:
147 TIFF images

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