Mingana Collection of Oriental Manuscripts 1000 - 1799

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Mingana Collection of Oriental Manuscripts 1000 - 1799

3061 manuscripts; 67 lantern slides of Coptic monasteries in Egypt; 14 clay tablets, 10 seals, c.70 coins.

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Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937

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Mingana was born near Mosul, Iraq, and was educated at the Seminaire St Jean, Mosul, where he trained for the priesthood, studying Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, Latin, French, Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew. He was ordained in 1902 and spent the next ten years studying and teaching at the Seminary. In 1913, following a dispute with the authorities, he left Mosul and travelled to England, settling in Birmingham, where he was befriended by the orientalist and biblical scholar James Rendel Harris. He spen...

Mingana, Alphonse, 1881-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p26cw (person)

Mingana was born near Mosul, Iraq, and was educated at the Seminaire St Jean, Mosul, where he trained for the priesthood, studying Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, Latin, French, Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew. He was ordained in 1902 and spent the next ten years studying and teaching at the Seminary. In 1913, following a dispute with the authorities, he left Mosul and travelled to England, settling in Birmingham, where he was befriended by the orientalist and biblical scholar James Rendel Harris. He spen...