language samples and word lists or correspondence from mission stations) from several German libraries and mission archives. The collection of 125 Swahili manuscripts (some of them bundles of several letters or [...] or notes) is the numerically largest African manuscript corpus in the State Library. Large parts of it come from the collection of Ernst Dammann, which he collected during his time as a missionary in Tanga

or at archive.org Band 7 (Poesie: 7702-8951) or at archive.org Band 8 (Poesie und Prosa: 8952-9361) or at archive.org Band 9 (Geschichte, Christlich-Arabisches, Nachträge: 9362-10368) or at archive.org Band [...] Internet Archive: Wilhelm Ahlwardt, Verzeichnis der arabischen Handschriften Band 1 (Allgemeines und Koran: 1-1032) or at archive.org Band 2 (Tradition und Dogmatik: 1033-2811) or at archive.org Band 3 [...] und Gebet: 2812-4357) or at archive.org Band 4 (Jurisprudenz und Philosophie: 4358-5386) or at archive.org Band 5 (Ethik, Naturwissenschaften, Medizin: 5387-6456) or at archive.org Band 6 (Arabische Sprache:

Orient Archive International conference 28th June – 1st July 2022 From 28 June to 1 July 2022 the Berlin State Library is hosting a three-day-conference exploring the interplay between collection history [...] translocation of, especially, Asian and African manuscripts to libraries in Germany between, roughly, the 17 th and 21 st century. German libraries have more than 100,000 objects from such manuscript traditions [...] >: Authority Records and Manuscripts in Libraries and Research” [Translate to English:] “<Author><Title><Place>: Authority Records and Manuscripts in Libraries and Research” 27. bis 29. Oktober 2021 an

and Georgian. Digitisation of a picture library of the oldest Koran fragments from Sanaa/Yemen (2021) In 2019, the Oriental Department acquired the pictue library of the Saarbrücken art historian Dr. H [...] have been digitized and catalogued in Qalamos , soon all of them will be available in the Digital Library of the Staatsbibliothek . Lailā and Maǧnūn at school, from a manuscript of Niẓāmī, Iran, 16th century [...] explorer Eduard Glaser (1855–1908) brought back from his first two expeditions and sold to the Royal Library in 1884 and 1887. Manuscripts from Yemen can also be found in the Landberg collection, the collection