Humanities and partly by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Other fragments are in the Museum of Asian Art. The Qalamos database records the shelf marks of all Berlin manuscripts with basic metadata

permanent loan from the Museum of Indian Art Turfan partly deposit of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, partly on permanent loan from the Museum of Indian Art

7:00 pm in the Mschatta-hall of the Museum of Islamic Art with a keynote lecture by Julian Raby (Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.) “Contents and Contexts [...] reception in translations, literary works and book art as well. Old Arabian manuscripts, rare historical prints, splendid illustrated volumes, advertising art and elaborately designed children’s books are examples [...] scholarly community of Islamic art historians is aware of the important role the Diez albums play towards a better understanding of the development of Islamic (book-) art. At the same time as the symposium

Sanaa/Yemen (2021) In 2019, the Oriental Department acquired the pictue library of the Saarbrücken art historian Dr. Hans-Casper Graf von Bothmer. It contains microfilms, color slides and photo prints of [...] interested in cultural history. Their relevance for Koran research, Islamic studies and Islamic (book) art history can also hardly be overestimated. The collection comprises about 24,000 MF recordings as well [...] comprises 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