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Studying the East: Selections of Manuscripts and Rare Books
March 16 through June 30, 2011
Saint John’s University and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library are
rich in books from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that bear
witness to European interest in and scholarship on the languages,
literatures, and cultures of the Middle East. The manuscripts and
printed volumes selected for this exhibit cover Arabic, Samaritan
Hebrew, Persian, Jewish Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, and Gǝ‘ǝz, and present
texts from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Progress in both printing
and scholarship advanced so rapidly that by the mid-seventeenth century,
interested readers had at their disposal a host of texts for the study
of these languages and religions, even when this meant producing books
using a number of foreign alphabets.[Enter] |
