Catalogue of the Mingana collection of manuscripts: Now in the possession of the trustees of the Woodbrooke Settlement, Selly Oak, Birmingham

by Alphonse Mingana

This multi-volume set is the catalogue for the famed Mingana Collection of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts. A principal resource for scholars of early Middle Eastern documents, this set describes and summarizes the documents that make up this collection.

4 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Alphonse Mingana, born Hurmiz Mingana in 1878 at Sharansh, a village near Zakho in the Ottoman Empire (now in modern Iraq), was an Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and a former priest. Like the majority of Assyrians in Zakho, his family belonged to the Chaldean Catholic Church. Alphonse was born to Paolus Mingana and Maryam Nano, and had seven siblings. He changed his given name after becoming a Chaldean priest.