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Alexander Nicoll

ألكسندر نيكول

Notable figure 1793–1828 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 476; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 1060 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 1054310017: Nicoll, Alexander (1793–1828)

Field: Manuscript cataloguing

Affiliation

Catalogued the Bodleian's Arabic manuscripts (1821)

Biography

Born at Monymusk, Aberdeenshire, he studied at Aberdeen and at Balliol College, Oxford, and became a sub-librarian of the Bodleian. He continued János Uri's catalogue of its Oriental manuscripts with a second part devoted to the Arabic manuscripts, whose first volume appeared at Oxford in 1821; Edward Pusey completed it after his death (1835). He held the Regius chair of Hebrew at Oxford from 1822 until he died.