Orient Orient- und Ostasienlesesaal in der Potsdamer Straße Oriental and East-Asia Reading Room The Oriental Department and the East Asia Department jointly manage the Oriental and East Asia Reading R

Orient Exposition “Travelling Tales: One Thousand and One Nights between the Orient and Europe” Scheherezade enchants the Staatsbibliothek The One Thousand and One Nights ranks among the most influent

Orient Contact Head of Department Christoph Rauch christoph.rauch@sbb.spk-berlin.de +49 30 266 435 800 Orcid Head of Section "Access to Manuscripts" Deputy Head Meliné Pehlivanian meline.pehlivanian@s

Orient Events of the Oriental Department The Oriental Department of the Staatsbibliothek has organised numerous events in recent years. Here you will find an overview: Exhibitions Scriptorium - Manusc

Orient Jahangir-Album. ca. 1600. Folio [18r] - Two writers - Libri picturati A 117 Wayang style illustration of a Javanese manuscript - Ms. or. oct. 4033 Ottomans: Roses and a clove - Ms. or. oct. 160

Orient South Asian Manuscripts The Oriental Department manages about 10,000 manuscripts in South Asian languages and scripts on various writing materials, whereby the Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts

Orient African Manuscripts The cataloguing of the African manuscript holdings began only after the 2nd World War and as part of the KOHD project. Subsequently, two partial volumes "African Manuscripts

Orient Ethiopian manuscripts The first Ethiopian manuscripts were soon included in the holdings of the "Churfürstlichen Bibliothek zu Cölln an der Spree", founded in 1661. Among the oriental manuscrip

Orient History and Responsibilities When Kurfürstliche Bibliothek was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century, the initial holdings already included Oriental manuscripts and printed works. Ex

Orient Coptic Manuscripts The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin owns an important collection of 111 Coptic and 2 Old Nubian manuscripts. Already in the years 1677 to 1679, the widow of the orientalist Theodo