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Near & Middle Eastern (Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish) Manuscripts

MS.F.2.10

Qurʻān. Selections. 19th century.

Physical description

1 item. 86 folios; 16 x 11 cm. In a leather case.

Language of Material

Arabic and Turkish.

Place of production

Unknown.

Scope and Content

Sūras 1,2,6,36,48,67,78,97,112-144 and other passages; with prayers (du'a') in Arabic, with occasional passages from the Qurʻān, and instructions in Turkish on the performance of the prayers. Date on inside cover: 1842.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bequest of T.G. Rylands, 1900.

Citations

John Sampson, A catalogue of the books ... bequeathed by the late Thomas Glazebrook Rylands ... to the Library of University College Liverpool (Liverpool: University Press, 1900), pages 18-19.

Previous ID

Rylands MS.2.10

MS.F.2.20

Qurʻān. Selections. 19th century

Physical description

1 item. 136 folios; 13 x 9 cm. Bound in brown leather with gold and silver tooling, in a braided brown cloth case.

Language of Material

Arabic and Turkish.

Place of production

Unknown.

Scope and Content

Sūras 1, 2, 36, 67, 78, 94-98,100-114 and other passages; with prayers (du'a') in Arabic and Turkish, containing occasional passages from the Qurʻān, names of the Prophet and of God (al-asma al-husna), and magical formulae in Turkish. Undated, probably mid-19th century.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Richard T. Golding.

Previous ID

Rylands MS.2.10A.

LUL MS.175

Shiʻite text. 19th century?

Physical description

1 item. On a paper roll, 7 x 318 cm.

Language of Material

Arabic.

Place of production

Unknown.

Scope and Content

Names of 12 imams in large script, with background and in-filling text of prayers and extracts from the Qurʻān. The names of the imams written vertically are separated by horizontal lines of script containing invocations to 'Ali and his successors.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred from the Gregson Institute, Wavertree, 1938.

Citations

University Archive D136: Inventory of the Gregson Institute, 1915 as part of the contents of Case 19: Arabic scroll from the Koran and the box.

Previous ID

SPEC GR6.3(3); previously in the Gregson Room, Harold Cohen Library.

LUL MS.41

Mejmūʻa. Rigʻa hand. Early 19th century.

Physical description

1 item. 20 folios, 22 x 16 cm.

Language of Material

Turkish.

Place of production

Rigʻa?.

Scope and Content

Mejmūʻa or album containing chronograms and poems, some by a writer named Rizāī, some nazires. Chronogram dates from the late 18th century.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

From Clarence Hopper's collection, with remains of printed label, and date 1852.

Previous ID

MS.3.48.

LUL MS.66

Bible: Pentateuch [polyglot]. Undated. Early 14th century.

Physical description

1 item. A fragment and two conjugate leaves.

Language of Material

Hebrew, polyglot.

Place of production

Unknown.

Scope and Content

Manuscript in Ashkenazic square script on vellum. Portions of Hebrew and Targum verse by verse, consisting of a fragment with parts of Leviticus xxvi 2, 6, 7, 11, 16, and two conjugate leaves with Numbers xiv 23-40 and xvi 25 to xvii 5.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

'Targum MS' presented to the University of Liverpool December 1950, by an anonymous donor. Gift accession number G37057.

Previous ID

MS.5.23.

LUL MS.67

Moses, Ben Maimon (Maimonides). Mishneh Torah. Undated. 15th century.

Physical description

1 item. Manuscript on vellum.

Language of Material

Hebrew.

Place of production

Unknown.

Scope and Content

Manuscript on vellum, in Hebrew, of portions of chapters 14 and 15 of the second book of the Mishneh Torah, written in a 14th - 15th century Franco-German hand. Text surrounded by a commentary in Hebrew, part of a version of the Haggahot Maimuniyyot, written in a 15th - 16th century Italian cursive hand.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

'Mishnah MS' presented to the University of Liverpool December 1950, by an anonymous donor. Gift accession number G37058.

Previous ID

MS.5.24.

LUL MS 170

Bible: Book of Esther. Approximately 1860.

Physical description

Parchment scroll, 14 x 401 cm. With ivory handles and cylinder, carved by Assur Keyser.

Language of Material

Hebrew.

Place of production

London.

Scope and Content

Scroll containing the Book of Esther in Hebrew. Written by Moses Keyser, London, approximately 1860. Keyser was the maternal grandfather of Dora Esther Yates.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Miss D.E. Yates in 1955. University of Liverpool gift accession number: G51996.

Previous ID

MS.6.15.

LUL MS 171

Bible: Book of Esther (1845).

Physical description

1 item. Parchment scroll, 26 x 351 cm. Blue silk wrapper.

Language of Material

Hebrew.

Place of production

Liverpool.

Scope and Content

Scroll containing the Book of Esther in Hebrew. Written by Ellis Samuel Yates, Liverpool, 1845. Yates was the paternal grandfather of Dora Esther Yates.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presented by Miss D.E. Yates in 1955. University of Liverpool gift accession number: G51995.

Previous ID

MS.6.16.