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Very grateful to announce the publication —after much consultation, an intervening conference, a museum exhibition, and months of editorial hurdles— of our paper on a fascinating Gulbenkian #Arabic #manuscript
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A Gift for the Emperor Dawāʾir al-ʿUlūm wa-Jadāwil al-Ruqūm, a Mediaeval Graphic Encyclopaedia of the 19th Century
The recent discovery of a 19th-century Arabic manuscript in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, initiated a period of intense collaboration between the Museum and the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lis...