| Description | Includes: Letters from Mingana to Professor G Furlani [Florence] saying that he disagrees with Furlani's belief that the Yezidis ever had any sacred books; Correspondence between Mingana and Hubert Peet [Editor of 'The Friend'] concerning articles by Mingana about the new papyrus fragment of St John's Gospel and the Mingana Collection, 1932-1935; Letter from Mingana to Rev WF Lofthouse, commenting on a paper entitled 'The Doctrine of Chinese Nestorianism', by John Foster, 1935; Letter from Mingana to Dr A Fischer [Leipzig, Germany] complimenting him on his article, asking when his Arabic Dictionary will appear, and advising him on the spelling and pronunciation of Muhammad in early Syriac and Mandean Literature, 1932-1933; Correspondence between Mingana and Professor CW Valentine asking Mingana to act as an external examiner for an MA thesis by Miss AH Fahmy entitled 'The Educational Ideas of the Muslims in the Middle Ages', 1937, with a report by Mingana on the thesis. |