Guide to the Charles Wendell Arabic Volumes
Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff
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Guide to the Charles Wendell Arabic Volumes, ca. 1800s-1900s
Collection number: Mss 199
Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Processed by:
- Preliminary arrangement and description by Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- Mar. 24, 2003
- Encoded by:
- A. Demeter
© 2011 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Charles Wendell Arabic Volumes
Dates: ca. 1800s-1900s
Collection number: Mss 199
Creator:
Wendell, Charles
Collection Size:
1.4 linear feet
(2 document boxes and 2 oversize boxes).
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Abstract: Seven bound manuscript and printed volumes in Arabic script, some illuminated by hand, including works on Islamic architecture
and religion.
Physical location: Boxes 1-2 (Del Sur); Boxes 3-4 (Del Sur Oversize).
Languages:
Arabic
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
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
Charles Wendell Arabic Volumes. Mss 199. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Charles Wendell, 1983.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 7 bound manuscript and printed volumes in Arabic script, including works on Islamic architecture and
religion. Some of the volumes have been illuminated by hand.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Manuscripts, Arabic.
Islamic architecture.
Box 1: 1
Illuminated, leather-bound volume (some pages heavily illuminated; all pages with illuminated borders)
Box 1: 2
Makamat el-Hariri -
Assemblies, written in India before 1804, Russian leather binding (information from dealer's description, pasted in the volume)
Box 1: 3
Small hand-tooled leather-bound volume in Arabic script
Box 2: 1
[Koran?] - leather-bound volume, no illuminations
Box 2: 2
[Koran?] - bound volume, no illuminations
Box 3-4
Islamic architecture, including mosques and minarets - 2 volume set [oversize]
