Orient Digitization Projects On this page we inform you about completed and ongoing digitisation projects. Since 2010, Oriental manuscripts have been continuously digitised at the digitisation centre of [...] Academy of Sciences and Humanities as a deposit at the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library includes about 40,000 fragments of oriental manuscripts and block prints, which were found at the beginning [...] addition, we produce digitised copies in response to orders from users. Currently, 7,250 volumes of Oriental manuscripts are fully digitised (as of April 2021) and most are available in the digital collections

Orient Persian Manuscripts The Persian manuscript collection of the Staatsbibliothek, which currently comprises about 2,907 volumes, has a long tradition. It is possible that Persian manuscripts were already [...] and 1691/1707 the manuscripts from the "nachlässe" of Theodor Petraeus (1630–1672), professor of oriental languages in Königsberg, and Christian Raue (1613–1677), last professor in Frankfurt an der Oder [...] bequeathed to the Royal Library, contains 17,000 printed books and 836 manuscripts, including over 400 oriental ones. Among the 51 Persian manuscripts are unique miniature albums. Some leaves of these albums

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@sbb [...] Dr. Rosa Tulyasheva rosa.tulyasheva@sbb.spk-berlin.de Tel.: +49 30 266 435 850 Enquiries to the oriental department Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Orientabteilung Potsdamer Straße 33 10785 Berlin

Orient New Acquisitions: country and region New acquisitions sorted by topic

Orient New Acquisitions: Topic New acquisitions sorted by country and region

Orient Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Orientabteilung Potsdamer Straße 33 10785 Berlin

Orient Arabic Manuscripts The holdings of Arabic manuscripts at the Staatsbibliothek amount to about 11,100 volumes. From early Koran fragments to illuminated magnificent manuscripts to utility literature [...] financed by the Prussian rulers. In particular, Frederick William IV (reigned from 1854-1861) supported Oriental studies and the purchase of manuscripts on a large scale. During his reign, for example, he purchased

Orient Notes on transliteration The languages catalogued in the Oriental Department are mostly written in scripts that deviate from the Latin alphabet. In librarianship, tables were therefore developed

Orient Syrian Manuscripts The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin owns about 390 Syrian manuscripts. The majority of the collection was acquired and catalogued by Eduard Sachau (1845-1930). The acquisitions after [...] (catalogue numbers 117-137 and 278-292). Eduard Sachau himself commissioned copies on his travels to the Orient, these copies are today valuable sources, for example for Fellihi and Torani (Turoyo), both dialect

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 manuscripts [...] of the Handschriften-Verzeichnisse of the Royal Library in Berlin. Today, the collections of the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library contain 335 Ethiopian manuscripts. Most are undated and probably