Near Eastern manuscripts, in Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew and Persian, of Christopher Hatton, 15th-17th century.
Near Eastern manuscripts collected by Christopher, 1st Baron Hatton
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- ReferenceGB 161 GB 3105 MSS. Hatton Or. 25, 32-5, 64-5, 70, 75, 78, 95
- Dates of Creation15th-17th century
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialArabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Persian.
- Physical Description11 shelfmarks
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Administrative / Biographical History
Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton (1605-70) was the eldest surviving son of Sir Christopher Hatton, the Elizabethan courtier. His strong royalist sympathies led him to retire to France in 1648, whence he returned after the Restoration. At various times he occupied minor political posts, but never rose to high office. He was a close friend of Clarendon and of a number of antiquaries, more especially Roger Dodsworth. Further details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.
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Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).
Acquisition Information
Hatton's oriental manuscripts are part of the Hatton collection which was bought by the Bodleian from Robert Scot, who purchased part of the library of Christopher Hatton. The collection came into the Library in September 1671.
Note
Several of the manuscripts were at one time allocated shelfmarks in the 'MSS. Bodley Or.' series.
Collection level description created by Susan Thomas, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.
Other Finding Aids
J. UriBibliothecae Bodleianae codicum manuscriptorum Orientalium catalogus pars prima (Oxford 1787). See the Arabic Christian and Arabic Mohammedan sections.
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). More recently, a 'Supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda', which has to be used in conjunction with Neubauer's Catalogue, was published (Oxford 1994), vol. 1.
Robert Payne Smith Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae, pars vi: codices Syriacos, Carshunicos, Mendaeos, complectens (Oxford, 1864).
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. 1-2.