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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... of Manuscripts FitzClarence’s ...
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 ...
Menelaus’ Spherics
and no Greek manuscript of the text is known. Triangles on a Sphere The material in the treatise can be divided... Stories in Manuscripts ...
History of the India Office Records and Private Papers
was abolished in 1947, these official records occupied approximately nine miles of shelving. Manuscripts... for the books, manuscripts ...
The Arabic Translations of Ptolemy's Almagest
there also existed a manuscript tradition in which the text was given the title Megále Sýntaxis, (‘ The Great... in the transmission of its ...
The British Library: How Many Institutions Became One
collection of Arabic manuscripts and material related to the Gulf, is held in the British Library collection.... in the world. It contained not ...
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 ...
