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Scope and Contents ff.VI + 111 + V; 217 x 169mm; text size 180 x 169mm; 17 lines in four columns, bound in light brown cardboard boards.The paper is watermarked 1830. The pages are ruled in pencil, with columns drawn in with ink.A note on the verso of the first leaf ascribes this MS to one M. Ventura, a secretary/interpreter for Oriental languages, and professor of Turkish "à l’école special des Langues Orientales vivants." The BFBS Minutes vol. 1, p. 69 record ‘Read a letter from Prof....

Scope and Contents ff.653 (total); 330 x 202mm; text size 290 x 147mm; 16 lines on recto only, unbound - except for Genesis and St. Matthew - loose sheets in cardboard folders fastened with ribbon.The paper - which was supplied by the BFBS - is watermarked with a lion and the date 1832, except for St. Mathew, which is watermarked with a woman with a shield (Britannia) and the date 1834.Slip pasted on to front cover of Genesis reads ‘I found these Berber MS in the possession of Professor Frank Newman...

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ff.322; 295 x 197mm; text size c. 240 x 170mm; 33 lines; printer’s sheets supplied by the BFBS (see BFBS MS 278, letter from Cuendet’s daughter). Unbound.
Genesis foliated 1 to 133. Psalms foliated 1-187.
Translated by Eugène Cuendet, published as "Lacel N’Dounith D’Zabour" (Genesis and Psalms), Algiers (England printed): BFBS, 1907. (C1191).

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ff.I + 108 + I; 313 x 197mm; text size 240 x 135mm; 27 lines bound in brown leather.
Red ink has been used for head titles, simple floral motifs and certain words. Otherwise the MS is undecorated. In Arabic character.

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ff.10; 309 x 195mm; text size 285 x 180mm; 26 lines, unbound by held together with ribbon at the bottom left corner.
Collation: 5 sheets, unfoliated, each of 2 leaves.
Probably compiled by Père Ollivier, a Jesuit missionary who prepared a French-Kabyle dictionary assisted by Mohand Amokran, a national who made the first draft of St. Matthew in Greater Kabyle which was published London: BFBS, 1885. (C1177).

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ff.100; 295 x 197mm; text size c. 240 x 170mm; 33 lines; printer’s sheets supplied by the BFBS (see BFBS MS 278). Unbound.
Translated by Eugène Cuendet, NAM, published as ‘Lacel N’Dounith, Zabour, Lmethoul, D’Ennebi Ichâia’ (Genesis, Psalms and Proverbs revised and Isaiah), Algiers (England printed): BFBS, 1927. (C1198).

Scope and Contents ff.960 (total); 220 x 172mm; text size 185 x 138mm (varies); usually 24 lines, in 18 exercise books numbered 2-15, 17-20. Book no. 2 is hard covered, all the others are soft.Translated by Eugène Cuendet, NAM and presented to the BFBS by Mrs. Clarisse Cuendet Blackmore, his daughter, whose letter accompanying the MS reads: ‘...in 1882 E. Cuendet with his wife went to Kabylia in Algeria from Switzerland...he worked on the unwritten Kabyle language, and the B.F.B.S. commissioned him to...

Scope and Contents ff.I + 40 + 1; 402 x 260mm; text size 310 x 180mm; 34 lines, bound in light cardboard.Decorated similarly to BFBS MS 274 and also translated by W. B. Hodgson, Vice-Consul of the United States of America in Algiers by Sidi Hamet, a national.After examination and transcription by John Hattersley, the BFBS published 250 copies of St. Luke 1-12 as an experiment (London: 1833. C1201). No satisfactory results were obtained and no further printing was done until 1954 when C. R. Marsh, CMML...

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ff.134; 282 x 193mm; text size c. 260 x 170mm; c. 27 lines, loose leaves, unbound. Roman character.
Translated by Tounsi, an Arabic national and former army interpreter, under the supervision of G. Pearse, founder of the North African Mission. Only the first seven chapters were printed. (Algiers, Adolphe Jourdan, 1883. C1175).