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 influential [...] tales, fables, and fairy tales, its composition was influenced by oral narrative traditions of the Orient as well as later European translations and literary adaptations. Coming from India and via Iran, [...] 18th-century Europe. Like no other work, the tales at that time shaped the Occidental perception of the Orient and inspired the fanciful interpretations of countless authors and book artists. The frame story

Next Oriental manuscripts and prints When the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm founded the library in 1661, Oriental manuscripts and prints were already part of the initial collection. The Oriental Department [...] noteworthy. The Oriental department is the key research partner for International Islamic and Arabic Studies. In cooperation with project partners, the DFG-project “Orient-Digital” develops the Oriental manuscript [...] 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. 1602

Orient Catalogues For the most part, the Oriental Department's printed works are catalogued in the StabiKat including parts of the old holdings and, since completion of the retro-conversion in 2015, the [...] Staatsbibliothek der DDR) The original card catalogues are still accessible in the basement of the Oriental and East Asia Reading Room. [Translate to English:] Grafik für das Haus Potsdamer Straße Haus Potsdamer

s http://orient-digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de Contact: Christoph Rauch (Head of the Oriental Department) christoph.rauch@sbb.spk-berlin.de Scriptorium: Workshops on the Study of Oriental Manuscripts [...] ng the history of the “Oriental disciplines” and intercultural relations is slowly beginning to be acknowledged. During the past few years, digital databases have made Oriental manuscripts in Germany [...] end of September 2021. Christoph Rauch and Torsten Wollina (Berlin State Library, Oriental Department / DFG Project „Orient-Digital“) Ute Pietruschka (KOHD, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

Orient DFG project "Qalamos" - Development of a union catalogue for oriental manuscripts (2023-2026) Project plan Since 2022, Qalamos has provided scholars and the interested public with an infrastructure [...] metadata and digital copies of oriental manuscript collections in Germany. The aim of the continuation project "Qalamos", which follows on from the DFG project " Orient-Digital ", is to bring together [...] together information and metadata on oriental manuscripts. In addition, the user-centred expansion of the " Qalamos : Connecting Manuscript Traditions" portal is ongoing. Over the next three years, the following

Orient New acquisitions Here you can call up the new acquisitions of the Oriental Department of the Staatsbibliothek for the current and the last half of the year as well as the new acquisitions of the

Orient News Arab bookbinder's workshop, late 19th century (Lemke Collection) Scriptorium 2024: Call for Applications The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities [...] with a Special Focus on Bookbinding " as part of the series "Scriptorium: Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts". Further information can be found here: Call for Applications . Page from the Koran [...] a workshop on Qur’anic manuscripts as part of the series "Scriptorium: Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts". Further information can be found here: Call for Applications . Staatsbibliothek zu

Orient Oriental Department Conferences 2022 Collection History Between the Academic Thirst for Knowledge, Antique Trade Across the Globe, and Colonial Claims to Power Internationale Konferenz in der S [...] 10 2016 Das Buch der Bücher im Orient – Online-Ausstellung und Buchpräsentation zu orientalischen Bibelhandschriften https://blog.sbb.berlin/das-buch-der-buecher-im-orient/ 12.2.2016 Konferenz zu Alishēr [...] and Research” 27. bis 29. Oktober 2021 an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin 2019 23.10.2019 Zwischen Orient und Okzident: Der türkisch-deutsche binooki Verlag zu Gast in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin am 23

Orient Turkish Manuscripts Among the oriental manuscripts there are about 3,100 volumes in Ottoman-Turkish. Catalogues Outstanding Objects Ms. or. fol. 4097, 56v,60r Mehmed Edirnevi, Nukhbat at-tawarikh

Orient Skriptorium Scriptorium - "Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts": Since 2012, the Oriental Department has regularly organized workshops and summer schools on various Oriental manuscript [...] manuscript studies. The workshop was led by Prof. Dr. Claudia Römer (University of Vienna, Institute of Oriental Studies) (Ottoman-Turkish manuscript tradition) Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf (Humboldt University