oldest book of the State Library: Coptic "Proverbienkodex" (4th century) Koptischer Proverbienkodex (4. Jahrhundert n.Chr.) International Coptic Workshop from 22.9. to 25.9.2020 at the State Library of Berlin [...] Berlin State Library is hosting a three-day-conference exploring the interplay between collection history and the translocation of, especially, Asian and African manuscripts to libraries in Germany between [...] >: 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

orientalist Theodor Petraeus (died 1672) sold Coptic texts to today's State Library. These were mainly copies of biblical books and lexical and exegetical treatises. In the period that followed, the collection [...] Outstanding Objects Ms. or. oct. 987, 1v, 4. Jh. Ms. or. oct. 978 - Book of Proverbs, from the 4th century The small-format codex of the Book of Proverbs (Sapientia Solomonis) dates from the 4th century and [...] in Egypt. 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

brought to the then Electoral Library in the 17th century by the orientalist Theodor Peträus. In the 19th century, a heyday of the Oriental collection at the Royal Library in Berlin, there were another [...] of older manuscripts that were pre-bound as so-called flying leaves at the beginning and end of the book) date back to the 9th and 10th centuries. The most recent specimens date from the 19th century. Of [...] the Gospel of Matthew Ms. or. oct. 3690 - Armenian Tetraevangeliary, Constantinople, c. 1650 This book belongs to the genre of the Tetraevangeliary, a synopsis of the four Gospels with parallel passages

volume 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 [...] Petermann II Nachtr. 29, beginning of text Petermann II Nachtr. 29 - Ethiopian Book of Enoch. c. 16th century The Book of Enoch belongs to the apocryphal biblical texts and is only part of the Old Testament [...] Prussian envoy Heinrich Friedrich von Diez, the great Egyptologist and director of the now Royal Library of Berlin Karl Richard Lepsius or the orientalist Julius Heinrich Petermann also brought Ethiopian

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 [...] about 310 volumes of Islamic miniature manuscripts from the various epochs of Islamic book art. They were made by book artists in Timurid, Safavidi, Ottoman or Mughal Indian workshops. Among them are such [...] features of the materials, a module for book art was developed for the manuscript database "Orient-Digital", now Qalamos , in which 8,200 miniatures, illustrations and book decorations are now listed and which

Orient Printed books Analogous to the general printed matter holdings of the Staatsbibliothek, the printed works and microforms acquired by the Oriental Department, whether in Asian, African or European [...] publication is after 1955. The old holdings of the 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 [...] The newer print collection, which was built up in the Asia-Africa Department of the German State Library (GDR), is currently displayed in the external stacks, while the acquisitions of the Oriental Department

One of the first manuscripts in the holdings of the Electoral Library was the four-volume so-called Rösel-Bibel , which came to the library as a gift from a woman of this name in 1692. Worth mentioning [...] being restored . Pictured is the beginning of the book of Genesis. Ms. or. fol. 534, 235v-236r Ms. or. fol. 534 - Samaritan Pentateuch The State Library owns a collection of about 80 Samaritan manuscripts [...] Arabic manuscripts in Hebrew script, acquired by Moses Wilhelm Shapira in 1873 and 1877. In 1880, the library acquired 15 Hebrew manuscripts from Erfurt, including a two-volume giant Bible from 1343 (Erfurt

came to the library. The library of the Prussian envoy to the Sublime Porte Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751–1817), which he had bequeathed to the Royal Library, contains 17,000 printed books and 836 m [...] the Royal Library in 1853–1857, including 140 Persian ones. Another 91 were acquired by Petermann after 1870. The collection of the orientalist Aloys Sprenger (1813–1893) enriched the library with numerous [...] of the Royal Library in Berlin, published in 1888, contains 1098 catalogue numbers. About two-thirds of the manuscripts described there were acquired after 1850. Subsequently, the library took advantage

Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ ascension (Miʿrāǧ) of the prophet Muḥammad - Diez A fol. 3 Fol. 2r Erfurter Bibel - Book of the Psalms - Ms. or. fol. 1211 Coptic Codex of the Proverbs, 4th century - Ms. or. oct. 987 Syriac [...] Coran from Guinea - Ms. or. fol. 4111 Ethiopian David’s Psalter - Ms. or. fol. 596 Armenian Gospel Book, initials - Ms. or. oct. 3690 Jahangir-Album Calligraphy in Nastaʿlīq-Script - Libri Picturati A 117 [...] Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ ascension (Miʿrāǧ) of the prophet Muḥammad - Diez A fol. 3 Fol. 2r Erfurter Bibel - Book of the Psalms - Ms. or. fol. 1211 Coptic Codex of the Proverbs, 4th century - Ms. or. oct. 987 Syriac

literature within the first two decades. However, following the evacuation of all manuscripts and book collections during the Second World War, activities came to a temporary halt. In the period after [...] were destroyed during the war and post-war years or were later found in various Eastern European libraries. The departments in East and West took different paths until 1991, but even during Germany’s division [...] cataloguing of Oriental manuscripts. The two departments began to grow together again when the libraries were unified in 1992. This process was completed when they joined premises at Potsdamer Straße in