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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)DA66/1/3/1/10
TitleCorrespondence L
Extent1 file
Date1930-1938
DescriptionLetters from Mingana to Lootfy Levonian [Near East School of Religion, Beirut], sending him a copy of 'The Charter of Protection' and commenting on Tritton's book 'The Caliphs and their non-Muslim subjects'; he thinks that 'The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia' is a better book, 1934-1935; Letter from Lootfy Levonian to Mingana asking for a copy of 'The Charter of Protection' and for Mingana's opinion of Tritton's book 'The Caliphs and their non-Muslim subjects', 1934; Letter from Lootfy Levonian to Edward Cadbury thanking him for a grant of £150, which he will use for publishing books, and asking Mingana to give him some information about a Persian book by Imam Muhammed Nasafi, 1930; Letter to Mingana from Edward Cadbury, 1930; Letters from Kathleen Garnett [Mingana's secretary] and from Mingana to Luzac and Company [manuscript and book dealers, London], 1936-1938; Letters to Mingana from HJ Lane Smith [retired CMS missionary from Bombay] asking Mingana to look at 'secret books of the Bohra sect' which he has brought back from India, 1932; Letter to Mingana from Professor Hubert Loewe, enquiring about Samaritan scrolls of the Pentateuch, with a reply from Mingana saying that there are none in his collection, 1934; Letters to Mingana from CR Lias, 1935; Correspondence between Mingana and Abraham Levene [Phd student, University of London], 1932-1936. Mingana helps Levene with his thesis and sends him rotographs of manuscripts from his Collection. Levene writes to say that his thesis has been accepted, 1932-1936. Letter to Edward Cadbury from Abraham Levene offering to help finish Mingana's work on Genesis, and expressing his sympathy at the death of Mingana, 1939.
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