Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan المشاركة في الفهرسة: المخطوطات الاسلامية في جامعة ميشيغان

Collection of manuscripts acquired in 1924 by University of Michigan professor Francis W. Kelsey with funds provided by an anonymous donor. The collection was once part of the personal library of Sultan Abdülhamid II of Turkey (1842-1918, ruled 1876-1909). The Abdul Hamid collection was originally cataloged on cards in 1925 by William Hoyt Worrell, professor of Semitics at the University of MIchigan. These cards are held in repository.

Language: Mostly Persian and Arabic, with some items in Turkish and one in Chaghatai; several items in two or more of these languages.

References: Pearson, Or. Mss Eur. N. Amer., p. 332; Martin, N. Amer. Colls. Isl. Mss, pp. 40-1; Roman, Dev. of Islamic Lib. Colls., pp. 235-236

Note: Microfilms of selected items available in repository.

Link to descriptions for the manuscripts of the Abdul Hamid Collection here.