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Commissioned by Emperor Haile Selassie, and printed in Addis Ababa in 1968/9, this facsimile of a traditional 3 column Deggwa manuscript may be the first facsimile of an Ethiopian...
Three generations of Arabic printing and book production in Lebanon at the Monastery of St John the Baptist, Dair al Yuhanna, Shuwayr. Kitab al-Injil - The Evangelion of the Gree...
A CHECHEN PRIMER, printed in Georgia. Chechenskaia azbuka i pervaia kniga dlia chteniia. [A Chechen primer and a first reader]. Izdanie Kavkazskago Uchebnago Okruga (Tipografiia K...
One of the most admirable and moving endangered language projects of recent years: A Belgian professor completed the first dictionary of the indigenous Aboriginal language of Umpit...
King Ibrahim Njoya was 17th in dynasty of kings that ruled over the Bamum people in Cameroon. A brilliant intellectual and renaissance man, he invented an indigenous African writin...
CLASSICAL GEORGIAN LITERATURE A collection of five texts of classical Georgian literature, edited and with an introduction by Platon Ioseliani (1809 - 1875), the pioneering Georgia...
The Warsaw Telephone Directory, 1939-40. "An outwardly unremarkable artefact", but an extraordinarily valuable research resource, the "key that led to the groundbreaking database",...
THE VENERABLE BEDE - IN OLD ENGLISH This is Bede's "Historiae ecclesiasticae gentis Anglorum" printed in Cambridge in 1643 - the first printing of the work in England and the first...
Cheriyal scroll paintings, produced in the Indian state of Telangana, have a claim to be the largest category of 'book' regularly made anywhere. This example measures 1.2 meters wi...
William Hay MacNaghten's The Alif Laila or Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, commonly known as "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments". Printed by the Baptist Mission Press...
A ritual manual of magical diagrams for warding-off death, written in Central Tibet in the mid 19th century. A remarkable, previously unattested manuscript which appears to be a...
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Royal charter ['Privilegio rodado'] of King Alfonso XI of Castile, granting the town of Escamjella [Escamilla] to Yenego Lopez de Horozco [Íñigo López de Orozco]. Royal Chancery, S...