Polyglot manuscripts in oriental languages, 17th-19th century. Includes coloured drawings of the Taj Mahal, a rubbing of a Nestorian inscription, part of the Yasna, and psalms and prayers in several oriental languages.
Polyglot manuscripts in oriental languages in the Bodleian Library
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- ReferenceGB 161 MSS. Or. Polyg. a. 1-3 (R), c. 1-3, d. 1-2, f. 1
- Dates of Creation17th-19th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialChinese, Syriac, Aramaic, Gujarati, Avestan, Pahlavi, Urdu, and Hebrew.
- Physical Description9 shelfmarks
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Polyglot manuscripts in oriental languages from various sources.
Access Information
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Acquisition Information
The manuscripts were acquired from various individuals, the earliest being given by John Evans in 1695, and the latest by R.W. Chapman in 1926.
Note
The series was formed before 1893.
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
Brief descriptions of all the manuscripts are in Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series, with references to the oriental and other manuscripts (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vols. V-VI, nos. 20898, 27763, 28739, 29056, 30897, 33032, 36358, 36994.
MS. Or. Polyg. a. 1 (R), c. 3, and f. 1 are described more fully in E. Sachau, H. Eth and A.F.L. Beeston Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindstn, and Pusht manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1889-1953), vols. 2-3.
MSS. Or. Polyg. f. 1 is additionally described in Theodor Aufrecht, Moriz Winternitz, A.B. Keith Codices Sanscriticos complectens, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1864-1909), vol. 2; and A. Neubauer and A.E. Cowley Catalogue of the Hebrew manuscripts in the Bodleian library, and in the College Libraries of Oxford, 2 vols., Catalogi Codd. MSS. Bibliothecae Bodleianae pars xii, (Oxford, 1886-1906).