A Descriptive Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts at St John's College, Oxford

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The 26 Oriental manuscripts (41 treatises) 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 during the seventeenth to 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 on the Arabic poetry that owners over...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199201951

ISBN13:9780199201952

Release Date:April 2005

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:186 Pages

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