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“…The Historico-Religious Context of Arabic Block Printing -- The (Re)Discovery of Arabic Block Printing -- Calligraphy and the Issue of Dating the Arabic Block Prints -- Block Printed Amulets in European Libraries and Museums -- Key to Transcriptions of Arabic Texts -- Agyptologisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin -- Cambridge University Library Michaelides Collection -- Cambridge University Library Taylor-Schechter Geniza Collection -- Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland -- The Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany -- Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg Institut fur Papyrologie -- John Rylands Library, University of Manchester -- Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Papyrussammlung -- Bibliotheque Nationale Universitaire De Strasbourg -- Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge -- Block Printed Amulets in Libraries and Museums in the United States -- Columbia University Library Papyrus Collection -- Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Madina Collection of Islamic Art, a Gift of Camilla Chandler Frost -- Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Islamic Art, New York, New York -- Scheide Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Firestone Library,
Princeton University -- List of Locations and Accesstion Numbers for Known Tarshes in Europe and the United States -- List of Works Consulted -- Index to Qur'anic Chapters (Suras) and Verses (Ayat) Appearing in the Texts of the Amulets -- Plates -- List of Illustrations.…”
Call Number: GR600 .S335 2006
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