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Non-Latin Languages | Western Manuscripts Post-1600

• Jeffery (Ms.) 50 manuscripts, mostly Arabic.
• Smith/Plimpton Oriental: 413 "Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts," listed in a card file created in the 1950s.
• Smith/Plimpton - Oriental: Islamic Talismans 1-24
• "X" Manuscripts: includes about 100 Arabic and Persian manuscripts.
• Arabic papyri and ostraca: See APIS (includes P.Col.inv. 705b, a printed amulet published by R.W. Bulliet, Columbia Library Columns 36.3 (1987) p. 13-20).

Armenian Manuscripts 1-7, and some in "X" Manuscripts. List available in binder at reference desk.

Coptic Manuscripts 1-18; see also ostraca and papyri. List available in binder at reference desk.

Ethiopic Ms 1; see also “X" and General manuscripts. List available in binder at reference desk.

48 short manuscripts; many are literary. These were all microfilmed together. List available in binder at reference desk.

• "X" Mss: includes about 1000 Hebrew Mss.
• Smith Hebrew Mss: about 12, mostly scrolls: not cataloged, not listed
• General Mss: about 20 manuscripts

• Smith/Plimpton - Oriental: Indic Mss
• Sanskrit manuscripts: Sanskrit Mss 1-40 (note: although in CLIO they are listed as "Smith Sanskrit," they were bought by the Libraries using the Smith fund in 1961.
• 257 manuscripts are cataloged individually in CLIO (get them by searching under call number for "Smith."

Main publications:

• David E. Pingree, Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts at Columbia University (New York: American Institute of Buddhist Studies, not yet published as of December 2008; RBML holds a copy of the manuscript version at the reference desk)
  
• H. I. (Horace Irvin) Poleman, Census of Indic manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New Haven, Conn., American Oriental society, 1938).

Samaritan Mss 1 and 2 (and reference to two more in s.l.). See information in binder at reference desk.

Syriac Mss 1-2. See information in binder at reference desk.

Tibetan Mss 1-6 and a few in Smith Indic.  See information in binder at reference desk.

Includes some other non-western languages, including Turkish (X895.4), Swahili, and others.

Medieval and Renaissance materials constitute a separate unit; the western material listed below dates after 1600.

There are cards in the manuscript/document card file in RBML reference area for these manuscripts, under author. There is also a shelf list card file for each collection. For General Manuscripts, there is also a binder at the reference desk with indexes by date and by language.