A Catalogue Raisonné of Oriental Manuscripts in the Government Library
Author : William Taylor
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Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : William Taylor
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Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Government Oriental Manuscripts Library (Tamil Nadu, India)
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Page : 998 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Manuscripts
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Author : William Taylor
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : William Cooke Taylor
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Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Rev. William Taylor
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Page : 802 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : William Taylor
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : William Taylor (Orientalist.)
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Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Government Oriental Manuscripts Library (Tamil Nadu, India)
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Manuscripts, Oriental
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Author : St. John's College (University of Oxford). Library
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2005-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199201952
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 description of every item within each manuscript. Most of the manuscript volumes were acquired through the donation of Archbishop William Laud (d. 1645), founder of the Chair of Arabic which bears his name. Several of his volumes were acquired from the traveller and adventurer Sir Kenelm Digby (d.1665), who bought them in Amsterdam, possibly on Laud's behalf. They are an interestingly varied collection, including Qur'ans and Arabic and Persian treatises on astronomical, mathematical, and military subjects. A bi-lingual Hebrew-Latin manuscript, as well as Arabic astronomical tables, came through the donation of Edward Bernard, Savilian Professor of Astronomy from 1673 to 1691. Six more manuscripts were given to the College in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including an Ottoman Turkish letter, a Gujarati merchant's map, and two Hebrew thirteenth-century deeds of conveyance collected by the antiquary John Pointer (d. 1754), one-time chaplain of Merton College, Oxford.
Author : Bertold Spuler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,86 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Tamil literature
ISBN : 9789004041905