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Betrifft die Handschriften Codd. 350 (S. 458), 727, 731 (beide S. 283), 732 (S. 114), 733 (S. 283), 754, 763, 789 (alle drei S. 114), 790 (S. 89), 792 (S. 114), 811 (S. 458), 813 (S. 372), 820 (S. 89) und B 49 (S. 114) der Burgerbibliothek Bern.
The collection of 41 treatises in 26 Oriental manuscripts now at St John's College, Oxford, reflect the varying ways in which Europeans have sought to make themselves familiar with the cultures of the East. Acquired between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, most are Arabic or Persian, but there are also Syriac, Hebrew, Turkish, Ethiopic, and Gujarati items. No mere catalogue, it includes an essay by Geert Jan van Gelder, the present Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford on the Arabic poetry that owners over the years jotted down on the margins, and is lavishly illustrated with 37 examples of calligraphy, diagrams, and illuminations.The catalogue provides a detailed descri...
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The European manuscripts of the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library constitute the world's largest collection of Western manuscripts relating to India and South Asia. They comprise about 300 collectons of private papers of British statesmen, soldiers, administrators, scholars, explores, missionaries, businessmen and others, and some 3000 smaller deposits containing documents of historical importance or curiosity. This catalogue provides a complete summary of the Collections' holdings of European manuscripts.