NB Bagdad mss ((Fwd) [Librarymedievalists] Fwd: News about Iraqi Libraries (F)

["Heinrich C. Kuhn" <hck _at__ lrz.uni-muenchen.de>]

Liebe Liste,

   untenstehend neue Nachrichten zur Bagdader Nationalbiblio-
thek.

   Mit freundlichen Gruessen

Heinrich C. Kuhn
P.S.: M.E. nicht "off-topic", da die weitergeleitete Nachricht
      via internet/eMail erhalten wurde ... [:-)] ... .
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Hi Everyone:

Some things were saved it seems from Baghdad. 
Read on....

Thanks

David

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:55:26 +0100
From: Geoffrey Roper <gjr2 _at__ cam.ac.uk>

We now have confirmation that the largest Iraqi 
MSS collection, in
what was known as the Saddam Manuscripts Library 
in Baghdad, is safe.
It contains more than 40,000 Arabic, Turkish, 
Persian & Kurdish MSS,
including the collections formerly in the Iraq 
Museum as well as
many other private and mosque collections.  All 
of them were packed
and transferred to safekeeping last winter, in 
anticipation of
hostilities.  We know this from two highly 
authoritative sources:-

1. The Director of the Library, Usama Nasir 
al-Naqshabandi, in a
satellite phone converstion with a colleague in 
the Orient-Institut,
Beirut (many thanks to Wolf-Dieter Lemke for this

information).

2. The Director of Research at the Iraq Museum, 
Donny George,
at a press conference in the British Museum in 
London yesterday,
which I attended.  This was in response to a 
direct question
about the Saddam MSS Library, for which the Iraq 
Museum is still
ultimately responsible.

At the same time, there have been press reports 
that significant
parts of the collections in the National Library 
and archives were
also saved from the fire and looting. Early 
newspapers and Ottoman
cadastral registers are reported to have been 
transferred to safe
storage in March. But we do not know the extent 
of the losses to
the main printed book collections.

Geoffrey Roper

Islamic Bibliography Unit
Cambridge University Library



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