Orient Notes on transliteration The languages catalogued in the Oriental Department are mostly written in scripts that deviate from the Latin alphabet. In librarianship, tables were therefore developed

Orient Syrian Manuscripts The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin owns about 390 Syrian manuscripts. The majority of the collection was acquired and catalogued by Eduard Sachau (1845-1930). The acquisitions after [...] (catalogue numbers 117-137 and 278-292). Eduard Sachau himself commissioned copies on his travels to the Orient, these copies are today valuable sources, for example for Fellihi and Torani (Turoyo), both dialect

offer […] rich and authentic insights into public and private life in the Orient. The occasional comparisons drawn between oriental and occidental views and cultural concepts lend this record a particular [...] women’s rights, stressing that “[a]ll through her book the Princess protests against the idea that Oriental women are degraded or oppressed” (“Literary and Other Notes V”, pp. 302 and 304) Call number: Berlin

Orient Ethiopian manuscripts The first Ethiopian manuscripts were soon included in the holdings of the "Churfürstlichen Bibliothek zu Cölln an der Spree", founded in 1661. Among the oriental manuscripts [...] 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 and probably

Orient 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 [...] 1668 and continued until about 1700 mentions two Malabar manuscripts (Tamil) among the 100 existing oriental manuscripts, which, however, could not yet be assigned to any objects. However, the earliest de [...] the originally planned Part 3 of the VOHD ; Vol. 22: Singhalesische Handschriften . Catalogues The Oriental Department also preserves the materials of the "Nepal German Manuscript Preservation Project" (NGMPP)

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discipline-specific specialised information services (FID), whose activities are strictly demand-oriented and geared to the current information needs of researchers. Since 1949, an effective form of cooperation [...] delivery or access to electronic sources. In the period 2013-2015, the subject-specific and regionally oriented special collections were transferred to the new funding programme "Fachinformationsdienste für die

Time 1600-1700, 1700-1800 Department Historische Drucke, Orient Listed in Online-Katalog StaBiKat Service Orient / Oriental Reading room Contact Orient / Meliné Pehlivanian T The Kaiser Library Bruno Kaiser [...] that are characterised by a high diversity of material. These include, for example, occidental, oriental and East Asian manuscripts, geographical maps, globes and atlases, music scores, autographs and [...] and single items, mostly original hand drawings, are in the care of the Manuscript department, the Oriental department, and the East Asia department This collection includes 100 objects. (Partially) Digitized:

Orient Manuscripts from Southeast Asia The collection of manuscripts from Southeast Asia is characterized by the multitude of languages that can be found in it. Carl Schoemann's important collection alone