Finding Aid for the Collection of Arabic Manuscripts LSC.0895
Finding aid prepared by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library Special Collections
Finding aid last updated 2023 July 28.
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of Arabic manuscripts
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0895
Physical Description:
85.0 linear feet
(170 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Date (inclusive): circa 1600-1899
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in Arabic.
Restrictions on Access
Portions of collection unprocessed. Material in the collection except for boxes 1-142 and 169-171 is unavailable for access.
Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Arabic Manuscripts (Collection 895). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Processing Information
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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Scope and Content
Boxes 1-142 and 169-171 include materials in Arabic relating to Islam and Islamic law. The entire collection is in Arabic.
Related Material
The manuscripts in this collection are identified in the Danishpazhuh Catalog with the leading identifier "A".
Subjects and Indexing Terms
manuscripts (documents) -- Arab countries.
Islamic law.
Islam.
box 17
no.115/1 - 115/2 (2nd copies).
box 62
no.218 - 221/1, 221/2, 221/3.
box 90
no.321 - 325.
General note
#322 in Box 170.
box 169
Manuscripts 147, 174/3 - to be interfiled.
box 143
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 18 vol.
box 144
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 18 vol.
box 145
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 16 vol., 1 fragment of 1 section.
box 146
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 20 volumes.
box 147
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 6 vol., 1 envelope of fragments.
box 148
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 8 vol., 3 fragments of 1 or more sections.
box 149
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 18 vol.
box 150
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 7 vol., 5 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 151
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 9 vol., 9 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 152
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 14 vol., 3 fragments of 1 quire.
box 153
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 10 vol., 7 fragments of 1 quire.
box 154
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 15 vol., 3 fragments of 1 quire.
box 155
Uncatalogued
General Physical Description note: 18 vol., 4 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 156
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 9 vol., 17 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 157
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 19 vol., 20 fragments of 1 or more quires, assorted leaves.
box 158
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 17 vol., 7 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 159
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 10 vol., 17 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 160
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 8 vol., 9 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 161
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 13 vol., 3 fragments of 1 quire.
box 162
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 13 vol., 3 fragments of 1 or more quires, 1 loose leaf.
box 163
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 9 vol., 5 fragments of 1 or more quires, 1 leaf.
box 164
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 15 vol., 11 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 165
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 10 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 166
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 6 vol., 22 fragments of 1 or more quires.
box 167
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 45 fragments, 1 vol., 4 leaves.
box 168
Uncatalogued.
General Physical Description note: 11 vol., 2 fragments.
