Treasures in the Royal Library


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THE EAST IN EUROPE

 

Judaica

M. Israel: Primum Questionum in Genesis. 1642. Correspondence between S.Y. Agnon and D. Simonsen. 1922.
שויתי (Shiviti). 18th/19th c. Dos gezang … vegn Leninen un Stalinen. 1939.

 

Arabic and Persian

Salâh al-Dîn al-Safadî: Kashf al-hâl fî wasf al-khâl (Uncovering
the circumstance in describing the mole in poetry). 17th c. (?).
Koran manuscript. 1874.
Sirâdj al-Dîn Abû Hafs Ibn al-Wardî: Cosmography. 1622. Artāk Virāz-nāmak. 1330.
Ibn al-Baytâr: Kitâb al-Tibb (Arabic pharmacopoeia). Sa’dī: Golestān (The Rose Garden). 1630’s.
Islamic talisman manuscript. c. 1800.

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South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Far East

Scroll from the Dunhuang Caves in China. 9th c. Mongolian manuscript about the monk Molon Toyin. 19th c.
The Perfection of Wisdom … Nepal 1511. Bark book from Sumatra. 19th c.
Manchurian manuscript on anatomy. c. 1700. Drawings of examples of Thögal. Tibet 20th c.
Blessings of the Sea. Japan 1776. Hand painted block print from Nepal. 1980’s.
Śiva Stories. South India 19th c.

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