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Replication of an Eighteenth Century Manuscript Binding
manuscript's binding by the British Library's conservator, Flavio Marzo. The parts of the video demonstrate the replication, step ...
The Arabic Manuscripts Collection in the British Library
Dr Colin F. Baker How and why did the British Library come to hold 14,000 Arabic manuscripts within its collections? The British Library’s ...
An Earl, a Collection and a Gun: the Curious Provenance of a British Library Manuscript
Dr Jo Wright How did an illustrated Arabic manuscript on the Art of War come into the possession... a Chapter on Gears. Add. MS 14055, f. 162v ...
Sir Thomas Reade: The ‘Nincumpoop’ Collector of Arabic Manuscripts
the Instruments of War’ end up in the British Library’s Arabic manuscript collection? A ‘Nincumpoop’ of the Napoleonic era, who moonlighted ...
History of the India Office Records and Private Papers
nine miles of shelving. Manuscripts and Private Papers In 1801, the Directors of the East India Company established a library to care for the ...
The Arabic Translations of Ptolemy's Almagest
Mathematiké Sýntaxis, (‘ The Mathematical Composition’) and beside this, there also existed a manuscript... For this critical work, based ...
The British Library: How Many Institutions Became One
several thousand years, including a large collection of Arabic manuscripts and material related... of the largest and most comprehensive libraries ...
Sahl ibn Bishr and the Rise of Astrology in Abbasid Times
and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Arabic MSS 523, f. 50a)... appears as Zael/Zahel/Zahel Benbriz, is extant in about fifty-five manuscripts ...
Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq and the Rise of Arabic as a Language of Science
manuscript copies, ensuring accuracy and consistency in his translations. He even travelled into the Byzantine Empire in search of Greek manuscripts ...
