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

by Emilie Savage-Smith

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