2022/06/03 by Schmidtke, Sabine
#Edward Ullendorff (1920–2011) #Eugen Mittwoch (1876–1942) #FOS: History and archaeology #Mingana Collection #Paul E. Kahle (1875–1964) #The Selly Oaks Colleges Library #scholarly correspondence
paper · doi:10.48706/wh2g-9686
Eugen Mittwoch owned a small collection of forty Geniza fragments that he had brought from Egypt in 1899. About half of Mittwoch’s Geniza collection, twenty-two items, together with some of his books, were sold off the Selly Oaks Colleges Library in Birmingham. It is uncertain what happened to the remaining eighteen Geniza fragments and other parts of his library. Some details on the acquisition of Mittwoch’s library by the Selly Oak Colleges Library are provided by Hans Ludwig Gottschalk (1904–1981), who served from 1938 until 1948 as the curator of Islamic manuscripts at the Selly Oak Colleges Library, in his correspondence with Paul Kahle (1875–1964).