Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Download or read book Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences written by Benedek Péri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was established in 1826. Its collection of Persian manuscripts is the most comprehensive set of its kind in Hungary. The volumes were produced in four major cultural centres of the Persianate world, the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Central Asia and India during a span of time that extends from the 14th to the 19th century. Collected mainly by enthusiastic private collectors and acknowledged scholars the manuscripts have preserved several unique texts or otherwise interesting copies of well-known works. Though the bulk of the collection has been part of Library holdings for almost a century, the present volume is the first one to describe these manuscripts in a detailed and systematic way.