The Egyptian National Library (Dab al-Kutub al-Misraya) contains a vast treasury of medieval manuscripts still largely untapped by modern scholarship. Among these are some 2,500 manuscripts relating to the exact sciences, mathematics, and astonomy, which constitute the largest single collection of medieval scientific manuscripts in the world. For more than nine years, David King and an ARCE-Smithsonian Institution team worked to catalogue these manuscripts and conducted detailed investigations of new material of particular consequence to the history of Islamic science.
Illustrated with 110 plates.
| ISBN: | 9780936770147 |
| Publication date: | 31st December 1986 |
| Author: | David A King |
| Publisher: | American Research Center in Egypt |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 332 pages |
| Series: | Catalogs |
| Genres: |
Bibliographies, catalogues |
The Egyptian National Library (Dab al-Kutub al-Misraya) contains a vast treasury of medieval manuscripts still largely untapped by modern scholarship. Among these are some 2,500 manuscripts relating to the exact sciences, mathematics, and astonomy, which constitute the largest single collection of medieval scientific manuscripts in the world. For more than nine years, David King and an ARCE-Smithsonian Institution team worked to catalogue these manuscripts and conducted detailed investigations of new material of particular consequence to the history of Islamic science.
Illustrated with 110 plates.
A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library features in the following genres: Bibliographies, catalogues
A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library is available in Hardback
A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library was written by David A King and published by American Research Center in Egypt
A Survey of the Scientific Manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library has 332 pages
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