Collections: Mingana - Christian Arabic

Nineteenth century paper roll. Contains a calendar with chronological tables and diagrams, with tables to calculate the Islamic and Syrian Christian calendars, and Dominical feast days.

Nineteenth century manuscript, written near Tripoli. Miniature prayer book of the Greek Uniate Church. Profusely rubricated, main headings in thick black characters.

An Eyptian manuscript from the 14th century. Contains a Consecration Ritual for a new Coptic church in Coptic and Arabic. Illustrations (frontispiece, headpieces); ornamented capital letters and bird and foliage ...

An Eyptian manuscript from the nineteenth century. Contains various treatises and theological works, including Saints lives.

A ninth century manuscript (dated 885 C.E.) from the Palestinian monastery of Mar Sahas. Contains fragments of Spiritual and Ethical Treatises attributed to St. Ephrem, in Arabic.

A tenth century manuscript from St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai. Contains part of Lives of the Apostles and Other Treatises, written at Sinai by Thomas.

A palimpsest from the ninth and tenth centuries, containing a Christlogical treatise in Arabic (the upper text) and a legal text (?) in Armenian (the lower text).