TY - BOOK ID - 147815001 TI - Prophets, poets and scholars : the collections of the middle Eastern library of Leiden University AU - Vrolijk, Arnoud AU - Van Ommen, Kasper AU - Scheper, Karin AU - Baarda, Tijmen AU - Leiden University Library PY - 2024 SN - 9789087284077 9087284071 PB - Leiden Leiden University Press DB - UniCat KW - histories [literary works] KW - special libraries [institutions] KW - Middle East KW - Museology KW - Book history KW - illuminated manuscripts UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:147815001 AB - Leiden University has an impressive collection of primary texts in various Middle Eastern languages such as Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Berber languages, Hebrew, and Ethiopian. These texts are contained in objects made of parchment, paper, and leather, which are often artistically shaped and ingeniously constructed. In addition, the university holds the written and printed records of 400 years of scholarly activity by Western orientalists. Currently, the Leiden University Library is the custodian of the largest Middle Eastern and Islamic cultural collection in the Netherlands, a unique position that is scarcely known to the public ER -