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12 booklets of varying sizes and formats held between blue boards 221 x 154mm.
A note on the pocket reads: "Babi manuscripts, Baghdad Dec. 1885. Bt.3". (unable to transcribe some symbols; see p. 232 of the printed catalogue, "Historical catalogue of the manuscripts of Bible House Library", BFBS, 1982).

Scope and Contents ff.91 (total); 212 x 134mm (except ff.74-75, 290 x 205mm); text on full page; mostly 20 lines. Unbound.Collation: 1(2) + 1 after 2; 2-12(2); 13(8); 14-15(2); 16(6), 17-40(2) originally numbered in sheets, I to XLV,each sheet equals 2 leaves normally, but f.3 which is a half sheet is counted full and one of the sheets in section 14 is missing. There are six distinct types of paper in this document, one series having an embossed stamp in the upper left hand corner.This manuscript was...

Scope and Contents ff.86; 218 x 180mm; text written on whole page; exercise book binding, "Cahier. Au Sans Rival. E. Dory. Place du Gouvernement. Alger."Collation: 1(60), 2(24), ff.74-84 blank. Written text is paginated 1-72, with two leaves numbered 41.A translation prepared by S.M. Guiz, former Rabbi of Algiers, under the direction of C.F.W. Flad, London Jews Society, in the colloquial Arabic of North African Jews. It is written in Hebrew cursive, and is a preparatory version for the...

Scope and Contents f.1; 810 x 555mm; text size 485 x 450mm; 68 lines unbound but reinforced with cloth stuck to the verso. The cloth has a hole 110 x 240mm for an address, seal or stamp.A deed of endowment (waqf) concerning the lands and associated property of 'Abd ar Razzāq Effendi, a teacher in the Agsā Mosque in Jerusalem. The property is to be administered according to the Hanafi school of Islamic Law, and the deed was drawn up in the court house of Jerusalem by the clerk of the court Muhammad...

Scope and Contents ff. I + 92 + I; 258 x 172mm; text size 185 x 120mm; 15 lines. Written on paper and originally bound in one volume, the leaves are decorated with interlinear signs and certain words in red ink. The recto of f.1 has a border in red and gold. The first end-leaf is watermarked with a device of three stars and the last end-leaf with three moons.The full collation is: 1(6) + 3 after 6 (ff.7-9), 2(6) + 5 after 6 (ff.16-20), 3(6) + 5 after 6 (ff.27-31), 4(6) + 3 after 6 (ff.38-40), 5(8) + 2...

Scope and Contents An undated manuscript ostensibly Arabic, which related to the "Events at the time of conversion of (sic) Tugluk Timur Khan to Islam", consisting of ff.278; 419 x 276mm; text size 300 x 177mm; 17 lines in a light brown leather binding. The MS is foliated on the verso, left bottom corner, and some words are written in red ink. The collation is: 1(4) (in joined pairs 1 & 2, 3 & 4) + 1 after 4, 2(4), 3(8) (wants 8), 4-5(8) (pairs joined 1 & 2, 3 & 8, 4 & 7, 5...

Scope and Contents ff.1 + 102 + 1; 208 x 145mm; text size 170 x 90mm; 25 lines; dark red tooled leather binding with yellow endpapers.Collation: f.1 & 102 are single sheets pasted in: ff.2-101 1-10(10). Certain of main text words are written in red ink; marginal notes and in black or red ink, in five places arranged in geometric shapes (e.g. f.71 recto marginalia shaped like a minaret).Of the six tracts in this volume, four are Arabic, the remained Turkish. The Galā'al qulūb is a compendium of...

Scope and Contents ff.8 (total); 318 x 214mm; text size: first 4 folios (Genesis) 200 x 131mm, second 4 folios irregular, 18 lines to part a), irregular part b). Unbound, each part consists of two sheets, with no decoration apart from one line on f.1 verso in red ink.Translated direct from the Hebrew by Joseph S. Coriat, a Jew of Tetuan "into the Arabic language as spoken in the present days in the empire of Morocco..." (f.1 recto). f.8 verso bears an inscription in red ink:...

Scope and Contents ff.I + 168 + 1; 189 x 105mm; text size 133 x 62mm; 18 lines; dark-blue tooled leather western binding.Collation: 1-21(8). Pages are decorated by headings and certain words in red ink. There is a double frame in gold on each page, the outer part of which is 181 x 102mm. and the inner 133 x 62mm. The outer frame was drawn after the marginal notes were written. The verso of f.1 has a tapestry motif 'unwān measuring 57 x 54mm.The Gospels in a Persian translation commissioned by Shah...

Scope and Contents ff.254 (total); 266 x 178mm; text size 229 x 155mm; 23 lines; unbound.Collation: loose leaves, of cardboard, ruled by pricking and pencil, prepared for lithographic printing. Text framed by borders of black ink (as used for text), floral borders on title pages also drawn in black ink.Translated, in the main, but Percy Smith N.A.M., (afterwards AMEM) and the Algiers Revision Committee. St. Luke is based on the work by Eric Nyström, Swedish M, and Romans, begun by Smith, and was...

Scope and Contents ff.222; 170 x 129mm; text size 130 x 95mm; 12 lines; bound in wooden boards covered in brown tooled leather.Collation: 1(8), 2-4(10), 5(9) wants 1, 6-15(10), 16(8), 17(11), 1 is a singleton, 18-22(10), 23(6). Written on a cotton paper which has been mended in places with paper from an Arabic-Latin text. ff.77, 98, 107 and 222 are on a lighter paper which was written in Syriac characters. Three crosses are roughly drawn on the inside front cover and there are interlinear symbols in red...

Scope and Contents ff.196; 222 x 157mm; text in two sizes: a) 170 x 95mm, b) 170 x 110mm; a) has 23 lines, b) has either 19 lines (ff.56-123 verso) or 22 lines (ff.125-194; bound in black tooled leather.Collation: 1(6) (f.1 pasted to front cover), 2-15(8) (ff.16 verso-17 recto and 52 verso-53 verso blank), 16(6) (ff.122 verso-123 verso blank), 17-24(8), 25(6), 26(4) (f.195 and 196 pasted to cover, 193 and 194 cut out, presumably blank). The paper is watermarked a) three quarter moons or b) B or P which...

Scope and Contents ff.39; 350 x 210mm; text size 275 x 130mm; 28 lines, unbound.Collation: loose leaves, written in square Hebrew character.Transliterated from the Van Dyck text by Theodor Irrsich, BFBS Depository at Alexandria, c.1888-1908 and subsequently Agent in Persia until his death in March 1911.Irrsich had successfully completed transliteration of St. Matthew (1891), Hebrews (1891), Psalter (1892), St. John (1892), and the Pentateuch (1900), all published by BFBS, Vienna, (DM 1749-1753) but...

Scope and Contents ff.208 (total); 210 x 145mm; text in three sizes, a) 170 x 90mm, b) 150 x 90mm, c) 150 x 95mm. a) has 24 or 26 lines, b) has 23 lines, c) has 15 long lines; bound in brown tooled leather.Collation: IV, 1(4) + 1 after 4, 2-14(10), 15(8), 16-19(10), 20(10) + 4 after 10, 21(8) + 2 after 8, III. Sundry watermarks, one in Italian; ruled with hard point and written in a very small hand. Short portions of the text are written in red ink.The volume contains fourteen tracts, or portions of...

Scope and Contents ff.III + 127 + I; 182 x 129mm; text size a) 145 x 100mm, b) ff.117-127 135 x 80mm; a) has 14 lines, b) has 13 lines in two columns. Red leather binding.Collation: 1(6), ff.1 and 6 verso blank; 2 (10), f.7 recto blank; 3-6(8); 7(6), ff.52 verso-54 blank; 8-13(8); 14(6), ff.105 verso-109 recto blank; 15-16(8), ff.117 recto blank; 17(2) + 1 after 2 (f.127). The main text is on white paper with ff.117-127 being on dark smooth paper. The preliminary matter is on a dark rough paper, used as...

Scope and Contents ff.103 + 1; 218 x 158mm; text size 170 x 110; 13 lines to full page; originally bound.Collation: 1(8) + 2 after 8, 2-10(10) (wants 10), 11(4). The paper is watermarked, and interlinear signs, headings and some words are in red ink. Small red and black ink flowers are drawn along the lines. f.1 verso has a small cross drawn on the full page, surmounted by a bird motif, f.2 recto has a gate motif with crosses, and f.92 recto has a gate only, both drawn in black and red ink. The loose...

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ff.255; 315 x 210mm; text size 236 x 137mm; 2 columns to page; 23 lines, bound in a brown, envelope-like tooled leather binding.
Collation: 1-7(10), 8(8) + 2 after 3 (ff.74-75), 9-10(10), 11(8) + 1 after 4 (f.105), 12-25(10), 26(6). The ruling is by hard point and interlinear signs and headlines are in red ink; each column is framed in red ink borders.
Entered in Bullen.

Scope and Contents ff.239; 292 x 207mm; text size 195 x 130mm; 2 columns to page; 21 lines; bound in a brown envelope-like leather binding inlaid in green.Collation: 1-23(10) (with the following ff. blank: 1-3 verso, 36 verso, 81 verso, 137 recto), 24(8) + 1 after 3 (ff.235 verso-239 blank). The paper is watermarked with (a) a crown and bunch of grapes or (b) an elongated oval. Ruling is by hard point; interlinear marks, some words and headlines are in red ink. Each column is framed with a border in...

Scope and Contents ff.II + 165 + I; 308 x 219mm; text size 225 x 151mm; 33 or 34 lines, rebound by pasting individual leaves onto guard slips on inner side, black tooled leather over scrap paper covers.Collation: 1(4) (blank, f.1 detached), ff.5-165, 2-16(10). The paper is watermarked by a) three half moons or b) one half moon, a flower and M. This is the same watermark as BFBS MS 31. Interlinear marks, chapter headings and some words have been written in red ink and there are a few marginal notes in...

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ff.243; 284 x 225mm; text size 215 x 135mm; 19 lines, disbound, some gatherings are still recognisable and caught with string.
Headline titles are in a larger character than the text and are in red or red and black ink; ff.80 has been mended with a strip of paper having traces of a cursive script on it.
An incomplete copy of the Pentateuch having only portions of the first five books of the Old Testament, not in order.

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ff.40; 332 x 232mm; text size 230 x 160mm; 10 lines, unbound.
Collation: 1(10) + 2 inserted (ff.3 & 4), 2(12), 3(14), 4(2), joined. Some lines and words in red ink.
Although previous owners believed this MS to be a Qur'an, it is in fact a portion of two works on Islamic law, with many interlinear and marginal glosses. It was probably written in Somaliland.

Scope and Contents ff.100; 103 x 73mm; text size and format vary greatly according to the many different hands. Unbound, but preserved in a brown leather slipcase, totally enclosing the leaves and with a leather thong to hold the leaves together. Mostly single leaves.Mainly prayers and ritual formulae for supplication [du'ā'], possibly extracts from the Dalā'il al-Hayrāt of Muhammad ibn Sulaymān al-Gazulī, a prayerbook in wide-spread use in Muslim Africa. It is most likely that this MS was written in...

Scope and Contents ff.12; 243 x 193mm; text size 240 x 170mm; 21 lines; bound in brown paper.Collation: one gathering, paginated 1-12 on paper watermarked "Curteis & Sons". Psalms 1-7 are on ff.1-6; ff.7-12 blank except f.9 recto "fifth the Psalm...".The English interlinear translation is a very literal one, and there are numerous omissions and corrections in the Arabic. The hand is European but otherwise unidentified.In the same hand and style as BFBS MS...

Scope and Contents ff.169; 142 x 95mm; text size 121 x 65mm; 15 lines; in a blank, tooled leather, envelope style binding, inlaid with green.Collation: 1(9), 2-5(10), 6(10) + 1 after 10 (f.60), 7(10) + 1 after 10 (f.71), 8-15(10), 16(10) + 2 after 10 (ff.162-163), 17(6). Decorated with signs above lines, some words and headlines in red ink. The text is framed with a yellow border. On ff.28 verso and 29 verso some words are written in red ink and are included in a triangle drawn with yellow ink. There...

Scope and Contents ff.208; 300 x 205mm; text size 230 x 138mm; 15 lines; bound in red leather.Collation: 1-20(10), 21(8) ff.207-208 blank. Ruled by hard point, the paper is watermarked either GIACO GIUSTI (at the centre of the leaves) or by a device consisting of a shield containing a hand holding scales. Some words and lines and a few, short, marginal notes are written in red ink.A fine copy written in a good clear (Nashi) hand by Mullā Sālih ibn al Hağğ Gawād, possibly at Tirāti in 1233 A.H. (i.e....