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Margaret Dunlop Gibson
Image: John Peddie (painting); photograph by Kaihsu Tai, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Margaret Dunlop Gibson

مارغريت دنلوب غيبسون

Notable figure 1843–1920 · Source: Johann Fück, Tarikh harakat al-istishraq (Die arabischen Studien in Europa), trans. ʿUmar Lutfi al-ʿAlim, 2nd ed., Dar al-Madar al-Islami, Beirut 2001, p. 288; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 464 · Second source: Catalogue of the Arabic MSS. in the Convent of S. Catharine on Mount Sinai (Cambridge University Press reissue), front matter

Field: Manuscript cataloguing

Affiliation

Cataloguer of the Arabic manuscripts of Mount Sinai (1894)

Biography

She travelled east many times with her twin Agnes Smith Lewis. At St Catherine's on Mount Sinai she catalogued the Arabic manuscripts, describing 628 of them (1894). With her sister she produced Forty-One Facsimiles of Dated Christian Arabic Manuscripts (1907), with a preface on Arabic script by David Samuel Margoliouth. The Royal Asiatic Society gave the two its gold medal in 1915.