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The Republic of Letters and the Levant
- Title
- The Republic of Letters and the Levant / edited by Alastair Hamilton, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Bart Westerweel.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Supplementary Content
- 20160321130020
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- Description
- vi, 301 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Intersections, 1568-1181 ; v. 5
- Uniform Title
- Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 5.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Chiefly in English, with one contribution in French.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Les freres Vecchietti diplomates erudits et aventuriers -- Between author and library shelf the intriguing history of some middle eastern manuscripts acquired by public collections in the Netherlands prior to 1800 -- John Selden the Levant and the Netherlands in the history of scholarship -- The travel notebooks of John Greaves -- Peiresc the Levant and the mediterranean -- To divest the east of all its manuscripts and all its rarities the unfortunate embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville -- Ancient languages and new science the Levant in the intellectual life of Robert Boyle -- From Istanbul to London? Albertus Bobovius appeal to Isaac Basire -- A Lutheran translator for the Quran a late seventeenth-century quest -- Patrick Russell and the republic of letters in Aleppo -- The Sultan's answer to the Medici press? Ibrahim Muteferrika's printing house in Istanbul.
- ISBN
- 9004147616
- 9789004147614
- LCCN
- 2006273582
- 9789004147614
- OCLC
- ocm62363820
- 62363820
- SCSB-9002125
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries