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

Tiflis Collection

Collection of manuscripts acquired from the British Museum in 1924 by University of Michigan professor Francis W. Kelsey with funds provided by an anonymous donor (Horace H. Rackham). The manuscripts came to the British Museum via the British Foreign Office but were deemed duplicate to others already in the British Museum's collections. Inventory cataloguing for the Tiflis Collection was first supplied on cards between January-June 1925 by William Hoyt Worrell, University of Michigan Professor of Semitics. Full cataloguing for the collection is currently being carried out by project staff and contributors to "Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan". A significant number of items from the collection were once part of the waqf library established around 1845-46 by Abdullah Edip Cennetzade in Erzurum.

Language: Chiefly in Arabic; with a few items in Arabic and Persian or Arabic and Ottoman Turkish.

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 Colls., pp. 235-236; Dougherty, R. Oriental manuscripts at the University of Michigan (unpublished).

View descriptions for the manuscripts of the Tiflis Collection currently posted to the site here.