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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
An Introduction to The Arcadian Library 7 by Dr Robert Jones book, unfold it, and look at the inside: it is a panoramic view of the temple of the sun and colonnade at Palmyra by a mid-19 th century artist who travelled from the Gulf up the Euphrates to Syria. As you will see, Bridge of Knowledge goes far beyond what we were able to display here or in London: it is in fact an intellectual and visual tour of the entire library. We do hope you will enjoy it and that you will want to enrich your own libraries by purchasing the other books that we publish with Oxford University Press. 17. I am going to close with a puzzle. This is a grammar book in Arabic about the Arabic language. It was printed in Rome in 1592. It mimics the style and layout of an Arabic manuscript, even to the extent of having a Bismillah at the head. It is unvocalised. That is to say it has none of the diacritical marks that would allow a novice to read the book. It is unreadable for a non-Arabic reader. Only by knowing the grammar of Arabic can you understand the correct vocalisation and read and understand the grammatical rules the book contains. So, though this book contains the key to understanding its contents, the key has so to speak been locked up inside it. What is the purpose of this book
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