Orient Skriptorium Scriptorium - "Workshops on the study of Oriental Manuscripts": Since 2012, the Oriental Department has regularly organized workshops and summer schools on various Oriental manuscript [...] manuscript studies. The workshop was led by Prof. Dr. Claudia Römer (University of Vienna, Institute of Oriental Studies) (Ottoman-Turkish manuscript tradition) Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf (Humboldt University

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

all 520 Hebrew manuscripts already begun in an earlier project and to make them accessible in the oriental manuscript portal "Qalamos". Part of this project is the restoration of the first volume of the [...] 2023 Project participant(s) - Third-party-funding Wissenschaftsförderungs gGmbH Contact Petra Figeac Orient Subject specialist phone: +49 30 266 435 860 petra.figeac@sbb.spk-berlin.de Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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

Ms. germ., Ms. lat., Ms. Phill.). Oriental and music manuscripts are not part of the collections of the Manuscripts Department. These materials are held by the Oriental Department , founded in 1918, and