Published in 1922, this valuable reference work gives brief descriptions of some 1,577 acquisitions made since the previous Hand-List was published. The MSS here described are for the most part in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdu or Hindustani, with a few in Pushto, Panjabi and Eastern Turki, etc. The Malay MSS are mentioned only under their class-marks, without title or description. There was one more Browne catalogue after this, completed posthumously by Reynold A. Nicholson.
 
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A SUPPLEMENTARY HAND-LIST

OF THE

MUHAMMADAN MANUSCRIPTS

INCLUDING ALL THOSE WRITTEN

IN THE ARABIC CHARACTER

PRESERVED IN THE LIBRARIES

OF THE

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGES

OF CAMBRIDGE

BY EDWARD G. BROWNE

CAMBRIDGE:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

1922

From the PREFACE

SINCE twenty-two years ago, I published the Hand-list of which this volume is the continuation and supplement, some eight hundred manuscripts in the Arabic character have been acquired, mostly by purchase, by the Cambridge University Library. The various College Libraries contain an almost equal number, of which, with the exception of King's, Trinity, and in part St John's, no list or catalogue has hitherto been published. Of these manuscripts, 1577 in all, the nature and contents are briefly described in the following pages.

In this Supplement I have followed, with trivial variations, the method of arrangement and description adopted in the original Hand-list, published in 1900, and fully explained in the Preface to that work, to which, in order to avoid vain repetition, I refer the reader …

… The MSS. here described are for the most part in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Urdú or Hindustáni, with a few in Pushto or Afgháni, Panjábí and Eastern Turkí, etc. The Malay MSS., of which there are a considerable number (in­cluding some threescore, numbered Add. 3755 to Add. 3816, presented by Mr R. J. Wilkinson in November, 1900), have fared worse than they deserve, being mentioned only under their class-marks (pp. 274-5 infra) without title or description. As there is at present no one in this University who is conversant with the Malay language, I endeavoured to obtain the help of some competent scholar from outside, but, unhappily, in vain; so that they still await the attention of some student possessing the necessary qualifications and leisure for dealing with them.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Errata

Part I: Titled MSS in Alphabetical Order

Part II: Untitled MSS in Order of Subjects

I. Jewish & Christian Theology

II. Muhammadan Theology & Law

i. Devotional Manuals

ii. Tradition

iii. Law

iv. Controversy

v. Heretical sects (Nusayris, Druzes, Hurufis, Babis & Baha'is)

vi. Mysticism

III. Hinduism

IV. History & Biography

V. Letters & Official Documents

VI. Science

i. Philosophy, Logic, Mathematics, Astronomy, Calendars

ii. Medicine & allied sciences

iii. Astrology, Geomancy & other Occult Sciences

iv. Philology & Calligraphy

VII. Poetry, Ornate Prose & Anthologies

VIII. Stories, Anecdotes, Proverbs, etc.

IX. MSS of mixed contents, Miscellanea, etc.

Part III: Class-Marks of All MSS

University Library

College Libraries

Clare College

Pembroke College

Corpus Christi College

King’s College

Queen’s College

St. Catharine’s College

Jesus College

Christ’s College

St. John’s College

Magdalene College

Trinity College

Emmanuel College

Fitzwilliam Museum

Most Recent Acquisitions

Index

Other Works, Including Translations, by the Author.

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