An Introduction to The Arcadian Library 1 by Dr Robert ... - Wolfsberg

An Introduction to The Arcadian Library 6
by Dr Robert Jones
copy, once owned by a 17 th -century English ambassador to Constantinople,
Sir William Trumbull, is exhibited here in Wolfsberg.
12. The exhibition here in Wolfsberg sets out to do three things:
First: to give you a taste of the ambience of the Arcadian Library, on the
ground and first floors or the Parquin House there are static graphic panels of
books and digi-frame displays of many images from the books, as well as a
20 minute film based entirely on rare books entitled The Arabian Gulf in a
World Context.
Second: in the inner sanctum of the basement, we display a few examples of
rare items from each of the six major subject areas of our holdings – Travel,
Turcica, Science and Medicine, Islam and Christianity, Arab Spain,
Scholarship and Literature.
13. Third: on the first floor, we display the work we are doing to promote
the contents of the library in association with Oxford University Press. You will
be able to browse through the books and see their design and content. Eight
titles have been issued to date, three more are now being prepared to go to
press, and many more are envisaged. Here are just some examples.
This book concerns a seventeenth-century French diplomat and gifted linguist
who was the first to render the Qur’an into French.
14. This book analyses for the first time the illustrators of the Arabian
Nights in famous European editions. The book is richly illustrated.
15. This book looks at Aleppo through the eyes of two seventeenth-century
Scottish physicians.
16. Copies of the book Bridge of Knowledge have been distributed to your
rooms. On the screen here is what you will see if you take off the jacket of the