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![A KAZAKH BOOK OF HOURS
A Kazakh Old Believers Chasovnik [Book of Hours], printed by Andrey Vasiliev...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEZdP69XwAI9iAd.jpg)
A KAZAKH BOOK OF HOURS A Kazakh Old Believers Chasovnik [Book of Hours], printed by Andrey Vasilievich Simakov at Uralsk [Oral], in northwestern Kazakhstan in 1907. A remarkable...
This lithographed Farsi edition of the One Thousand and One Nights - Alf leila wa leila bi farsi - was printed by Fath al-Karim in Bombay in 1890-91. The binding is quite extraordi...
Woodblock-printed "tarshes" - small amuletic prayer scrolls - are known from Fatimid Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East between the 10th & 13th centuries. But this haunting 13t...
The first edition of the Arabian Nights in the Uzbek language "Alf leila wa leila turki bit-tasavvur" [One thousand & one nights in Turki, with illustrations]. Printed in Tashkent...
A rare 18th century Qur'an from Dagestan or the North Caucasus, with many of the distinctive features found in Islamic mss of this region - unusually large format (a massive 42cm x...
Kaladlit Okalluktualliait - edited by Hinrich Rink & printed by Lars Møller at Godthåb in Greenland in 1859-63. These 4 volumes of Greenlandic folktales, illustrated with remarka...
This is the 2001 English first edition of the - utterly batshit -Ruhnama (Book of the Soul), written by Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006, intended to...
Take a wild guess which country's flag @FadahJassem, Twitter's new Editorial Curation Lead for MENA [Middle East and North Africa countries] "inadvertently" left out of her tweet....
The real commercial value of most 18/19th cent. torah scrolls is $500-$1000 if bought individually, half that if bought in bulk. There are 1000s available for sale at any time. Why...
This is another one of the absurd, crudely faked Hebrew manuscripts, likely made in Turkey, that exploit anti-semitic tropes and near total ignorance of Hebrew or Judaism to rip of...
The Sphinxing Rabbit - Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Bunny - is a *wildly* original, hilarious, MAGICAL book by Pauline Chakmakjian about a time traveling rabbit, the Middle Age...
This is an easily understandable mistake to make, these misattributed photos purporting to be Bill Gate's library have been shared thousands of times. But I for one appreciate the...