Heyworth-Dunne Collection
Heyworth-Dunne Collection
Manuscripts acquired by the University Library in 1950 (along with a large number of printed books incorporated into the general collection). Formerly part of the personal collection of James Heyworth-Dunne (d.1974), a senior reader in Arabic at SOAS, University of London from 1928-1948, who thereafter became a member of the staff at the Middle East Institute Washington, D.C. A collection of his personal papers is found at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. Inventory cataloguing for the Heyworth-Dunne Collection was completed over the course of three weeks in late May - early June of 1993 by Roberta L. Dougherty. Full cataloguing for the collection is currently being carried out by project staff and contributors to "Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan".
Language: Chiefly in Arabic with at least one item partially in Persian.
References: University of Michigan. The President's report for 1950-1951. Ann Arbor, MI: The University, 1951, p.261 ; Dougherty, R. "Michigan Islamic Manuscripts Unaccessioned vols.," p.16 ; Behn, W. Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus. Leiden, 2004-2006, p.75 ; Jajko, E. "Preliminary inventory to the James Heyworth-Dunne Papers, 1860-1949." Hoover Institution Archives, 1999.
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