47 Manuscripts From The Private Library Of Buṭrus Mattī Yūsuf In ‘aynkāwah, Iraq, Are Now Available In Reading Room
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47 manuscripts from the Private Library of Buṭrus Mattī Yūsuf in ‘Aynkāwah, Iraq, are now available in Reading Room
Posted: 2023-11-01Cataloging is complete for the collection of Buṭrus Mattī Yūsuf in ʻAynkāwah, Iraq (PLF PMY). Yūsuf (1936-2015) was a Chaldean Catholic native of northern Iraq who lived in Paris for most of his later life. His manuscript collection includes his own class notes from his studies in Rome in the 1950s and 1960s along with numerous Syriac texts that were copied by hand from the great manuscript collections of Paris, London, and the Vatican, in many cases followed by French translations. Many of these recent copies were inherited from the earlier French Syriacist François Nau (1864-1931) and are likely in his hand. View now
Image caption: Title page for a topical dictionary, al-Alfāẓ al-kitābīyah, copied in 1953 by the owner (PLF PMY 00002)