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Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8193
Title:: A collection of Turkic and Persian works
Scope & Content:: This volume contains a collection of poetic works in a Turkic dialect and Persian arranged concurrently. The main text in Uyghur script comprises a number of moral tracts, poems, and religious works, while the Persian sections are poetry by Kamāl Ismāᶜīl. Text from a different work is found on f...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, Chagatai, and Persian
Date Range:: 835
Extent:: Codex, ii,182, iii folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8612
Title:: Epistles of Paul
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains one the earliest translations of the Pauline Epistles into Arabic and is written in a rather ancient script. The main part of the codex is still in St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai. Smaller units that were separated from it are today found in Paris and Munich whereas a p...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 9th century
Extent:: Codex; fols. 40

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 8746
Title:: Section of a West African Qur'an
Scope & Content:: This work is a section of the Qur'an copied in West Africa (probably Nigeria) running from Sūra 16 (al-Naḥal) to partway through Sūra 21 (al-ʾAnbiyāʾ). The hand is regular but not ornate. Only two colours - black and red - are used. Verse endings are represented by a single black circle, not a ye...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: Mid 19th century
Extent:: 43 ff

Reference (shelfmark):: Or 9399
Title:: Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah al-ʻulamāʼ إختلاف الائمة العلماء Ibn Hubayrah, Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad إبن هبيرة، يحيى بن محمد
Scope & Content:: Part of 7 of Ikhtilāf al-aʼimmah al-ʻulamāʼ (إختلاف الائمة العلماء) by Yaḥyá ibn Muḥammad ibn Hubayrah (يحيى بن محمد ابن هبيرة; d. 1165‏) on the differences in opinion of the great jurists. Islamic law -- Interpretation and construction -- Early works to 1800.
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic
Date Range:: 1201-1399
Extent:: Codex; ff. 178