Multispectral Imaging Data of selected areas of erased writing of Ms. or. quart. 1105 and Ms. or. quart. 1121 captured on the 31 of May 2017 at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) while both manuscripts were being catalogued.

The manuscripts are owned by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Ms. or. quart. 1105 is an Arabic multiple-text manuscript of thirteen treatises on various Christian subjects written on parchment. Some of them are translations from Greek texts.

Ms. or. quart. 1121 is an Arabic composite manuscript of two texts written on paper. The first work consists of the tenth part of a biographical work, which was made a bequest to a library in Kairo in 761 hijra /1359-60 AD by a former owner. The last text, being a mystical treatise, was copied in 1050 hijra / 1641 AD.

The research for project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) within the Sonderforschungsbereich 950 (SFB 950). The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg. In cooperation with Katalogisierung der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland (KOHD), a project financed by the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.

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