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Uncovering Networks within 700 years of Material textual Culture in the Arabic World.
With our student assistants at the venerable Bibliotheca Albertina (Leipzig). © Swen Reichhold
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Seals, such as this one from the governor Ahmad al-Jazzar of Akka, are a primary source to uncover book collections.
MS Leipzig B. or. 227 © Swen Reichhold / Universität Leipzig, SUK
At the Bibliotheca Albertina.
Beginning of the manuscript with al-Baġawīʾs (d. 510/1117 or 516/1122 ) Maṣābīḥ as-Sunna, with illuminated ʿunwān and marginal commentaries. The first folios of the manuscript show damages. © Leipzig University Library
The marginal annotations have red numbers as referencing system. © Leipzig University Library
Some manuscript pages are littered with notes documenting provenance, readings, and other interactions with the book. © Leipzig University Library
MS Leipzig Ms 0999 © Leipzig University Library
