Author: Decatur (Ill.). Free Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California ...
Author: James Mason HutchingsPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3-1503/4) (2 vols)
Author: Gülru NecipoğluPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004402500
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1532
Book Description
The subject of this two-volume publication is an inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his royal librarian ʿAtufi in the year 908 (1502–3) and transcribed in a clean copy in 909 (1503–4). This unicum inventory preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtára Keleti Gyűjtemény, MS Török F. 59) records over 5,000 volumes, and more than 7,000 titles, on virtually every branch of human erudition at the time. The Ottoman palace library housed an unmatched encyclopedic collection of learning and literature; hence, the publication of this unique inventory opens a larger conversation about Ottoman and Islamic intellectual/cultural history. The very creation of such a systematically ordered inventory of books raises broad questions about knowledge production and practices of collecting, readership, librarianship, and the arts of the book at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The first volume contains twenty-eight interpretative essays on this fascinating document, authored by a team of scholars from diverse disciplines, including Islamic and Ottoman history, history of science, arts of the book and codicology, agriculture, medicine, astrology, astronomy, occultism, mathematics, philosophy, theology, law, mysticism, political thought, ethics, literature (Arabic, Persian, Turkish/Turkic), philology, and epistolary. Following the first three essays by the editors on implications of the library inventory as a whole, the other essays focus on particular fields of knowledge under which books are catalogued in MS Török F. 59, each accompanied by annotated lists of entries. The second volume presents a transliteration of the Arabic manuscript, which also features an Ottoman Turkish preface on method, together with a reduced-scale facsimile.
Catalogue of the Free Public Library ...
Author: Decatur (Ill.). Free Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Catalogue of the Everett Public Library
Author: First Supplement to the Finding List of the Providence Public Library, 1882
Author: Providence Public LibraryPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385408466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
First[-sixth] Supplement to the Finding List of the Salem Public Library, Salem, Mass., December 1889[-October, 1894]
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Author: Salem Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Catalogue of the New York Free Circulating Library
Author: New York. Free Circulating Library. Jackson Square BranchPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Finding List of Books Except Fiction in the Public Library of the City of Dener with Author and Subject Indexes
Author: Denver Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Non-fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Della Mortika 2: The Library of Wonder
Author: Geraldine F. MartinPublisher: Fontaine Press Pty Ltd
ISBN: 1925442012
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Abigail and Beatrix have been adopted by the Malefics, a famous inventor family, after a short stay in the Skipping girl Home for Wayward and Homeless girls in Melbourne. Zarah sets out to be reunited with them, but when she gets to the Malefic Mansion she is disturbed to find that her sisters are nowhere to be seen. Where are Zarah’s sisters? Why have other children been disappearing? And what do these happenings have to do with the Malefics’ latest invention, The Library of Wonder?
Complete Dictionary Catalogue of the Public School Library of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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