Record

LevelSub-fonds
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)DA66/3
TitleLetters to Mingana
Extentc 100 items
Date1922-1937
DescriptionLetters to Mingana including letters from his friend and scribe, Mattai bar Paulos, Arabic and Syriac. Letters to Mingana from manuscript dealers including Louis Sarkis, Arabic and Erik von Scherling, English, Arthur Jeffery [School of Oriental Studies, the American University at Cairo], Ignatius Aphram Barsaum, [Patriarch of Antioch], Syriac.

The letters total 336 pages.
LanguageEnglish
Arabic
Syriac
Finding AidsA brief typed list of the letters is available in the deposit file for the collection.
Access StatusOpen
Custodial HistoryThe letters were deposited by Sebastian Brock, Honorary Curator of the Mingana Collection 1947-1983, who was given them by William Duff McHardy, Curator of the Mingana Collection from 1983-2003.
AcquisitionDeposited by the Curator of the Mingana Collection.

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