IslHornAfr

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Collection

Bodleian Library - Bruce collection

Manuscripts gathered by James Bruce during his travels and stay in Maghreb, Egypt and Ethiopia. They are totally 96 manuscripts: 70 in Arabic, 25 Ethiopic, one Coptic (on papyrus). Each volume bears an armorial bookplate of 'Bruce of Kinnard'. In 1827 and 1842 the collection was unsuccessfully offered for sale; the Bodleain finally purchased them in 1843. They are briefly described by Alexander Murrey in his edition of Bruce's Travels (1813), vol. 7. The medical mss are included in Savage-Smith New Catalogue. Here are described only the Arabic mss copied or evidently passed through the regions of the Horn of Africa.

Place

Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

Present custodian

Main collector

Bruce, James

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