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Die 'Glaser-Handschriften' aus dem Jemen in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
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AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00023
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Authors:
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Kramer, Ralf
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Locality:
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München
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Language:
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German
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Contents:
Ralf Kramer, a specialist on Tibet and India in the Oriental and Asian Department of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek ('Bavarian State Library'), discusses details on the acquisition of a collection of Arabic manuscripts by the then Königliche Hof- und Staatsbibliothek zu München ('Royal Library of Munich') through the mediation of Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) in 1902.
The accession records of the Manuscript Department reveal the acquisition of a collection of 156 South Arabian manuscripts, facilitated by Dr. Eduard Glaser for a sum of 6,000 marks. The seller is identified as 'the agent Caprotti in South Arabia, from Magenta near Milan'.
Emil Gratzl (1877-1957), the library's director of acquisitions and 'an Arabist with relevant linguistic knowledge' provided a concise description of several notable acquisitions, proving that the collection included 157 Arabic manuscripts and a single Hebrew manuscript.
As early as 1902, Gratzl had begun working with Glaser on a catalog, but the project was abandoned within the same year and remained unfinished until Glaser's demise in 1908. ...
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