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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 ...
The Manuscript Journals of John Bax
These journeys are all recorded in meticulous detail in his journals. John Bax’s ‘Manuscript Journals’: Volume... again between 1822 and ...
Claudius James Rich: Administrator, traveller, author, and collector of manuscripts and antiquities
or nine, the sight of some manuscripts in the library of a gentleman at Bristol inspired him to learn... reach, and to collect coins, oriental ...
The Taylor Collection
Company use his position to collect the manuscripts that went to form the basis of the British Library’s Arabic-language collection? A group ...
Menelaus’ Spherics
seriously studied in its entirety in the ancient period and no Greek manuscript of the text is known.... produced at a time when the text was ...
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 ...
