UNSPECIFIED Christian Arabic 61 - Coptic 2. [Manuscript]
URL of Published Version: http://vmr.bham.ac.uk/Collections/Mingana/Christian_Arabic_61_Coptic_2/table/
Identification Number/DOI: Auth=ITSEE/textsource=Mingana/Christian_Arabic_61_-_Coptic_2
Abstract :An Eyptian manuscript from the 14th century. Contains a Consecration Ritual for a new Coptic church in Coptic and Arabic. Illustrations (frontispiece, headpieces); ornamented capital letters and bird and foliage marginalia.
This manuscript is contained within the The Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts, held at the Department of Special Collections, University of Birmingham. This collection was founded in Birmingham between 1925 and 1929 by Edward Cadbury, the Chairman of Council of Woodbrooke College and a founding member of the Selly Oak Colleges, who sponsored and financed the Collection, and housed it in the Selly Oak Colleges Library. He named the Collection after its collector, Alphonse Mingana. The Arabic manuscripts are the third largest collection in the UK. The content is mostly religious, mainly Islamic and early Near Eastern Christian.
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Library Services, Special Collections, ITSEE |
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Virtual Manuscript Room |
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BR Christianity BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc DS Asia
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University of Birmingham, JISC |
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Mingana Collection |
ID Code : |
156 |
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06 Jul 2009 10:50 |
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06 Jun 2022 16:14 |
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