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Ottoman Turkish and Çagatay mss in Canada : a union catalogue of the four collections
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ISBN: 9789004272392 9004272399 1336207299 9004284044 9789004284043 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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There are over 275 Ottoman Turkish and Çaĝatay manuscripts in Canada, including more than 200 in the collection of Professor Eleazar Birnbaum. These are remarkable in terms of age (mostly 15th to 17th century) and subject range. The descriptions in this catalogue are unusually detailed: they include author, title, subject, contents, first and last words, date of manuscript, calligraphy, foliation, dimensions, and the location of similar manuscripts elsewhere. Among other special features are details of watermark designs in the paper (useful for dating undated manuscripts), descriptions of seals and notes of previous owners, and many colour illustrations. The catalogue also describes all Turkish manuscripts in the three other small Canadian collections: at the University of Toronto, McGill University (Montreal), and the Royal Ontario Museum.

Persian manuscripts in the libraries of McGill University : brief union catalogue
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ISBN: 0773530207 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montréal, Québec : MacGill-Queen's University press,


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Arabic and Persian manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto : a brief catalogue
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ISBN: 9789004388215 9004388214 9004389679 9789004389670 Year: 2019 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto includes many early copies, from the 6th century A.H. / 12th century C.E. onwards. They cover a wide range of subjects. The catalogue gives detailed descriptions of 66 Arabic and 34 Persian works, arranged by subject. Author and title indexes provide easy access, and photographs of selected pages enhance the descriptions. The manuscripts were acquired individually over many decades."

Planets, potions and parchments
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ISBN: 1282851802 9786612851803 0773562664 9780773562660 0773507930 9780773507937 0773507914 9780773507913 Year: 1990 Publisher: Montreal Buffalo

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More than 200 rare scientific manuscripts, books, maps, amulets, and magical texts have been brought together from renowned collections in Europe, Canada, Israel, Great Britain, and the United States specifically for this exhibition. The most famous among these is a fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls containing chapters 81 to 85 from the Book of Psalms: fragments from the scrolls have been in Canada on only two other occasions. The exhibition will have an Assyrian cuneiform tablet from the seventh century BCE that describes treatments for eye ailments, a first edition Copernicus, and several texts by Maimonides, including one with marginal notes by Martin Luther. Also featured, in a rare Latin translation, is an Arabic medical book written by a Jew, demonstrating the international and inter-faith nature of the medieval scientific endeavour.

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