Author: E.J. BRILL - LEIDEN.
Title: Catalogue 510/1979: Islamic Collections.
Description: . 79pp. Plates in b/w and colour. Wrs.*This catalogue offers a number of collections in the field of the Islam: 1 - Rare lithographed editions from Fès, described by Dr. P.Sj. van Koningsveld. (contains fresh data on the lragely unknown and unexplored history of printing in Morocco). 2 - Fatwa Manuscripts (contains the most important legal sources of the Ottoman Empire). 3 - A Persian Library, specially strong in historical and scientific texts. 4 - A very large number of turkish diwan manuscripts and books. 5 - A collection of 332 Arabic manuscripts. 6 - A collection that illustrates with a wide range of titles the birth of Arabic scholarship in Europe from 1800 to 1850. 7 - a cartographical treasure-house: the famous Monumenta Cartographica Aegypti et Africae. 8 - a few calligraphical pieces of Islamic interest..

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