Department is responsible for Works in the languages of the Near East, Asia and Africa, with the exception of East Asian languages Translations of works from the languages of the Near East, Asia and Africa, including [...] including the East Asian languages Chinese, Korean and Japanese, into Western European languages Translations into the above mentioned languages (in part) The conversion of the Oriental Department's old [...] on in 2015, the two card catalogues that Deutsche Staatsbibliothek der DDR took custody of after World War II: AK-Or II (publications up to 1974, acquisitions of Preußische Staatsbibliothek and Deutsche

s in other African languages such as Herero, Zaramo, Xhosa or Shambala. Noteworthy is a legacy of the Africanist A. Klingenheben (1886-1967) with notes on the Liberian Vai language (Hs or 2372). In a second [...] 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" of the [...] the Africanist Ernst Dammann, contains 687 entries and records manuscripts (mostly poems, letters, language samples and word lists or correspondence from mission stations) from several German libraries and

works and microforms acquired by the Oriental Department, whether in Asian, African or European languages, are usually displayed in the stacks and can be ordered from there and either used in the reading [...] Oriental Department of the former Prussian State Library were also affected by the evacuation in the 2nd World War and the subsequent division. It is therefore located today partly in the house Unter den Linden

developed into a world-renowned collection of Oriental literature within the first two decades. However, following the evacuation of all manuscripts and book collections during the Second World War, activities [...] the following areas: - Acquisition and cataloguing of literature in Asian, African and European languages from and on the following regions: Ancient Orient and Egypt Islamic Middle East from North Africa

Its writing material is papyrus. It is probably one of the oldest completely preserved books in the world. There are not many written testimonies preserved in Achmimic. Ms. or. fol. 3065, 1r Ms. or. fol. [...] 19th century. Ms. or. quart. 1020, 1r Ms. or. quart. 1020 - Old Nubian manuscript In the Old Nubian language, which is similar to Coptic, very few written documents have been preserved. This makes it all the

after the Second World War. The origin of the approximately 2400 manuscripts extends from Kashmir in the north to South India. Its value lies in the diversity of literature, languages and scripts represented [...] 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 of North

was able to acquire all issues from 4 June 1946 to 31 January 1947. The language of the newspaper is Yiddish, the colloquial languages of the DPs, the majority of whom came from Eastern Europe. Yiddish is [...] Poland and Lithuania. After the war, the Committee became an important helper in the chaotic post-World War II Germany. Many Jews who had survived the war as partisans, in the underground or in concentration

Among these, approximately 1,200 volumes are attributed to various Eastern Christian communities. Languages representing these manuscript traditions include Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Amharic, Old [...] exception (Tosefta, Ms. or. fol. 1220) - originated in medieval Ashkenaz. The Bible "Erfurt 1" is the world's largest Hebrew parchment manuscript which comprises two volumes of 584 and 484 leaves, measuring [...] collection of the BBAW was completed within the framework of this subproject. In addition to the language groups mentioned in the title of the subproject, other smaller collections, such as Xixia, Manchu