Hartford Seminary collection, circa 900-1900.

185.0 linear feet (circa 1613 volumes, 15 boxes)

Arabic; Armenian; Turkish

Purchased from Hartford Seminary on the Beinecke Rare Book & Capital Reserve Fund fund, 2005.

At acquisition in 2005, the collection consisted of 1253 numbered Arabic manuscripts, with unnumbered Arabic fragments and approximately 360 manuscripts in other languages including Armenian, Syriac, and Turkish. As the unnumbered manuscripts were cataloged, they were assigned call numbers at the end of the numeric sequence. Subject matter of the Arabic manuscripts was identified by Hartford Seminary as falling into the following categories: theological (42%), literary (14%), legal (14%), linguistics (13%), the sciences (8%), philosophy (6%), and occultism (1%). The collection also includes Hartford Seminary's catalog cards for the collection, with cards for titles and authors (in box 1), and by number (in boxes 1-2), and two binding fragments that could not be matched with manuscripts (in box 1).

June 10, 2010

Preliminary list available.

Hartford Seminary Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Hartford Seminary Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.