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Preliminary Guide to the Islamic Manuscripts Collection
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Title: Islamic Manuscripts Collection
Dates: ca. A.D. 1122-latter 1800s
Collection number: Mss 207
Collection Size:
0.9 linear feet
(3 oversize boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: The collection contains 39 items, single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of
the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia],
Pakistan, Persia [Iran], Syria, and Turkey, from the 12th to the 19th centuries A.D.
Physical location: Vault.
Languages:
Arabic, Persian, Bihari
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Islamic Manuscripts Collection. Mss 207. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Multiple purchases, 2003-2004 and in hand.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 39 items, single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of
the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia],
Pakistan, Persia [Iran], Syria, and Turkey, from the 12th to the 19th centuries A.D. There are five chronologically arranged
series: History, Koran, Poetry, Prayers, and Miscellany.
Special Collections also has bound copies of manuscript and printed Korans and other Islamic texts.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Manuscripts--Islamic countries.
Koran--Manuscripts
Persian poetry.