Access Restrictions
Use Restrictions
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content
Title: Islamic manuscripts collection
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 207
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections
Language of Material:
Arabic
Physical Description:
4.59 linear feet
(5 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1122-late 19th century
Abstract: The collection contains single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic
world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia], Pakistan,
Persia [Iran], Syria, and Turkey, from the 12th to the 19th centuries A.D.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Islamic manuscripts collection. Mss 207. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Multiple purchases, 2003-2004 and in hand.
Scope and Content
The collection contains single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic
world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa [Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia], Pakistan,
Persia [Iran], Syria, and Turkey, from the 12th to the 19th centuries A.D. There are five chronologically arranged series:
History, Koran, Poetry, Prayers, and Miscellany.
Special Collections also has bound copies of manuscript and printed Korans and other Islamic texts.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Koran--Manuscripts
Manuscripts--Islamic countries
Persian poetry